Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism

[Blau&Gruen]

Bryan Maggie talks to Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6...eature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgUDa...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzAqf...eature=related
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Enjoy, and feel free to comment on.

[eventhorizen]

Great stuff, always good to hear someone elses take on works like these.

Heidegger is a very interesting character with some very interesting views on things; his association with Nazism and his subsequent concerns about a technological world reveal in my view his humanity - "Only a God can save us" - and should not distract nor detract from his brilliant clarity and imagination in not only his existential philosophy but equally so on the difficulties and misdirection such philosophy faces and has faced in the past. His ideas on time deserve a mention in my view; they not only show a grasp of the entire picture but reveal true insight.

When someone states that language is the house of the truth of Being, and that we lack the words to communicate ideas of existence, then that someone knows what they talk about.

[Odovacar]

"We" only lack the words to express existance as members of modern, technical societies..deattached from our very existence having lost our "home" which was the basement of our "existing-in the world"

We may also lack the words needed, speaking the metaphysical language of the so called' Seinsvergessenheit' of post-greek philosophy, acc. to Heidegger.

[eventhorizen]

We lack words to even approach existence, for the fundamentally self evident is necessarilly pressumed in all prior communication; which is, as Heidegger points out, the flashing Neon sign of its primacy, difficulty, and profundity.

Does God exist?

[Odovacar]

As I remember, Heidegger thought that greek philosophy expressed the fundamental question about existence. "Approaching existence" doesnt mean anything, because "existence" (Sein) is basicly "understood" by every existing by its Dasein, its current, determined existence.

Some forms of existence can be forms of "being called to the Truth of Existence", such as borderline-situtations, or poetical activity in its deepness.
However, this is just temporary.

The existence of God is no question in a heideggerian "existentialism"
By the way, I personally dont think its really a philosophical question.