I can’t help but hear all of this through the lens of Orthodox theology, and the parallels are striking.

@thomaswortman

2 ай бұрын

what are your thoughts on new creation in christ andHeidegger. sound very much like he os describing this phenomenon

Best elucidation of Being in Time I ever heard, , or to be more precise, Dasein. . Thank you so much.

@millerman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I must mention that I have three courses on Heidegger in my online school. Please feel free to check them out! MillermanSchool.com

very fun talk and easy to comprehend for those of us who are not fluent in heidegger

Thank you Michael, I have read Heidegger's Being and Time, and his short pieces on Technology and Art and etc, and though I have gotten a lot from them, your emphasis on the existential necessity of our being transformed in relation to being as the key to understanding philosophy at all is really eye opening. This notion that self transcendence as part and parcel of what it means to be human is also a crucial element in the yoga and shamanic traditions, and in Christian ideas like repentance and redemption. Dr. John Vervaeke of U. Toronto's cognitive psych department has also worked hard to foreground this aspect of being human as something that we have forgotten (for many reasons) with the result being a certain existential alienation, loss of meaning and the sense of agency for modern man. So I really appreciate this emphasis. Telling friends about the channel - - Dugin is a real trip. Thanks for that too.

Thank you! I started studying Heidegger 37 years ago along with an intersection with computer science. Your explanation was brilliant. The concern that bought me to your lecture was my perception that the schools of thought of critical thinking have lost their way. Self-certainty and an eagerness to dismiss truth as a manifestation of class power struggles is a rich ground for self deception. I look forward to watching more of your videos and reading your book. This thinking is at the core of the turmoil and way forward for the world.

Thank you introducing me to Heidegger. I must say that you might be the best philosophy lecturer I heard in my life. The amount of examples, synonyms, repetitions is exactly what I needed. It was hard not to understand what you tried to convey. Thank for your effort and love of philosophy. When I have enough money, I will gladly contribute them through your website

This was so good! Thank you so much. You are so articulate and I didn’t think it was too long at all.

Excellent lecture. In response, I hereby proclaim that I am the Antidasein and that accepting it reveals that there must be metafundamental philosophical precepts that although beyond human comprehension, must nevertheless exist, which by extension infers a dimension heretofore not considered, and that it is only in the state of uncertainty as to whether or not to take this seriously that the door is open.

I didn't make clear enough this point: being-in-the-world means that "the-world" belongs to the being that you are as Dasein. It is not just a way of saying that you are something/somebody inside the world. "World" is an existential structure of Dasein. When Dasein understands itself not as "being-in-the-world" with all of its nuances and specificities, which Heidegger outlines, but is "entangled" in "world" and interprets itself in terms of beings in the world, then it lacks genuine self-understanding and is not exposed to the truth of beyng. When you hear "being-in-the-world" (which, according to Heidegger, is what you are), you should remember that all those words mean something unlike what you're used to when hearing them, and that they only become clear with a little work to get to the existential or fundamental ontological dimension of Heidegger's thinking. That is the task of Being and Time and you must, as I said at the beginning, and as Heidegger himself taught, make this your question and your task if you want to grasp what he's on about. Otherwise, even if you understand it conceptually, more or less, you won't be getting the most out of what Heidegger has to offer. Understanding is a being-disclosing mode of Dasein: it is not a concept in the head of an individual. I can say the words, but you must be the one to make them yours, or to see yourself in light of them. Moreover, I naturally could not go over all the details thoroughly as to how everything hangs together. But this was just a foretaste of Heidegger and if you want more you have options, including taking any future seminars I might do on Being and Time and Contributions to Philosophy of the Event. Watch what you can, read what you can, and most of all spend some time with Heidegger's own writings. Thank you for attending, thank you for watching, and get in touch if you have any questions. Cheers!

@Icosindaba

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Finding Heidegger very helpful in my social work counselling with whistleblowers. You should find this interesting. kzread.info/dash/bejne/rGGLq5qHj9qnntI.html

@johannafreeburn3061

10 ай бұрын

having just tried to listen in a somewhat busy house, i am certainly going to listen again, undisturbed. on this first listening tho, i am reminded of an experience i had MANY years ago, and have experienced it only once again since. i discussed this experience with my aunt who held a degree in psychology and in philosophy, and she told me at that time that i had experience what some call a 'near death experience'. this is not the sort of thing one generally has chats with friends about, but the few conversations where i have brought it up because it somehow seemed relevant, i have been told the same thing, or that it was a 'transcendental' experience. your broadcast today has brought all of that back to me, so i thank you for that, and wonder if this is in fact what you are alluding to in heidegger;s meaning of dasein? a sort of transcendence out of the 'mundane' way of being into a more 'pure' way?

@kelor

9 ай бұрын

YOU SAID IT, OR IS IT HEIDEGGER WHO SAID IT? : "being-in-the-world means that "the-world" belongs to the being that you are as Dasein". I COULD EXPLAIN THIS AS FOLLOWS: 1) "we are all dasein" 2) "the world belongs to us". YOU ALSO SAID, OR MAYBE HEIDEGGER DID: "Understanding is a being-disclosing mode of Dasein" I COULD EXPLAIN THIS AS FOLLOWS: "one should not understand the "dasein"; because if he does, he excludes himself from dasein; he understands that he is one with all the others". So "dasein" should be the individuality. By inference "not dasein" should be "the whole sein" (ΤΟ OΛΟΝ). RIGHT? WAS IT SO DIFFICULT FOR HIM TO SAY IT IN A SIMPLE WAY? BUT THEN, HOW WOULD PEOPLE STARTLE AT HEIDEGGER'S BULLSHIT?

@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine

5 ай бұрын

dasein is the experience of the noth in being-in-the-world that's understanding in terms of a disclosure or unfolding of an ontology in a form of being-towards-death either way that's old

40:04. TRANSCRIPTION: "Not Beings and Being, but rather Dasein (as Being-in-the-world) and its exposure to 'Beyng' with a 'Y' - that is, deeper source of self-revealing openness. So I've got to say something about all this, but it's very important. Beyng with a Y indicates for him this deeper, more genuine & more original dimension of Being’s self-disclosure. Being discloses itself through Dasein. Dasein stands open to the to the ground of Being. Beyngs meanwhile are over here on this other level. They also get reinterpreted when we see ourselves as Dasein and when we see Dasein on the basis of this ground. So a million more points to make here: 40:56 Heidegger says that in Modernity, the human being has become interpreted as self-certain self-consciousness, and the peak, really, of philosophical elaboration of self-certain self-consciousness is Hegel, who in the Phenomenology of Spirit unfolds the encyclopedic comprehensive speech, conceptual speech, that gives you the externalization of subjectivity and its full articulation and return to self-knowledge. 41:31 So in Hegel you have the total self-conscious self-certainty expressed conceptually. The peak and perfection in some sense of philosophical Modernity. But Heidegger says *that is a type of existential or fundamental ontological suicide,* because when you are self-certain - let’s say, This is your self 41:56 [gestures], this is your self-certainty - it's the point beyond which you don't need question, because you “already know.” It's the “certainty” that lays the basis for everything that comes next. 42:07 He says This is how in part you think about culture and about genius and about many other things. They are based on the idea that the human being is a self-conscious self-certainty that “builds,” so to speak, from its “own foundation.” *That is not Dasein* because, let’s take self-certainty…42:22 [gestures]

Excellent! Have been working with Heidegger for decades in context of my research into the Soul. You did an excellent job here, especially considering that you did it in English, which is definitely a fall from the grace of how Heidegger employed the German language to convey Seyn...

I seriously need a philosophy for dummies crash course with extremely simplified language and concepts explained in layman's terms. I would really appreciate it.

Thanks, Michael. Can't wait to listen to it later.

I've really enjoyed your videos and lectures. Thank you Michael! You are a brilliant teacher. From London, England.

dasein reminds me very much of the new age idea of "merkabah" or "chariot of ascension" adapted from BC religions in the deserts of the near east. also kind of reminds me of the distinction between "self" and "Self" in eastern religions, and the concept of theosis in orthodoxy.

Wasn't too long, I like it to be long at times. Very interesting subject. Thanks for posting this.

@millerman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Josh. I have a course on it also: heideggercourse.com cheers

Excellent

These are some of the deepest thoughts I've ever been exposed to. "Mystical dimensions of Heideggerian thought" seems like a book waiting to be written.

This lecture is to Heidegger what C. S. Lewis' "The Discarded Image" is to medieval literature. A necessary orientation and entry point which makes the work vastly more accessible.

absolutely lovely!

People think the universe ain't be like it is, _but it do_ Heidegger

Heidegger says the modern concept of truth has the essence of measurement. It's important to understand the essence of truth as unconcealment to understand what he really means when he says the "truth of beyng". Heidegger really means the "unconcealment of beyng".

Brilliant exposition!

7:10 to skip introductions

You're not actually in the World, you are on it but you may be once your dead and gone if that's your plan after death. You're in the Universe. What's genuinely worthy are the necessities in life and the access we have to them all, as individuals, for without them we will cease to exist. Our history has been a constant battle for full control of those resources and numerous attempts to enslave us all by doing so. As a Dasein upon our birth our instincts naturally direct us to the acquiring of those very resources in order to survive but those needs are initially supplied by our caregivers until we become independent enough to provide them for ourselves. Pretty much the circle of life or being. Everything else is a diversion.

Dasein has regenerative potential only in affliction of time dilation: the deep divide between subjective and physical time-the subjective becomes a crawl due to neuronal processes that can’t be interrupted; a crowding that’s like an avalanche. It’s part of your brain turned into your enemy. The spacing of temporality is becoming a brain, and brain is the incarnation of time in a body.

Apophatic and Cataphatic in reference to being also, not only to non-being 😊... Also, it would have been helpful to mention the following: in German, da = here; sein = to be. Good talk, thank you!

Thank you!

Amazing.

Where can I find your translation of Alexander Dugin ; I can not find them on Amazon. I've watched some of your other discussions and I enjoyed them. Thank you.

@millerman

4 жыл бұрын

Dugin was banned from Amazon but you can buy his books from the publisher's website or find a used copy on eBay, etc.

@brucecmoore1657

4 жыл бұрын

@@millerman Thank you Prof. Millerman - there is a link from the publisher Arktos to Barnes & Nobles; I was able to purchase four of his books there.

@bensanderson7144

3 жыл бұрын

You can buy them on the Arktos website

Very well 'translated'

Heidegger would love Adishankara's exposure of Advita Vedanta...He would be also content, I am sure, in hearing Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ultimatum pointers.

@MrMikkyn

2 жыл бұрын

I come from a theology vedanta hindu studies background and I found the beginning of his book quite easy to understand. As it related to things like the atman, brahman, anatman and shunya. I’ve read that he’s very difficult but I found reading him like reading Buddhism.

Ah, yes. A man of great intellect and great guitar tastes.

This is great

Great explanation , and acknowledge your persistence and intelligence Did Heidegger practice meditation as a tool to transcend the finite being ? His work I believe could have been better understood by people like me who dont have your capacity Michael . Deep sleep, the Mystery that we are is available Here Now as BEING

@millerman

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think he practiced meditation in the way we mean it but he did practice mindfulness in a way that we must learn from him.

@brunischling9680

Жыл бұрын

His daily walks in the Black Forest were a kind of walking meditation. The late Heidegger had a distinctive interest in Taoism. One of his students wrote a little monograph on “Heidegger and Zen”. I don’t think that was ever translated into English.

This is a helpful exposition Prof. Millerman. Thank you! Do you have any insights into "being-toward-death' as it relates to suicide?

@millerman

2 жыл бұрын

It's a good question but not something that comes up in being and Time, where the goal is not to "realize" the possibility of being toward by actually dying but to relate to it as a possibility (which he calls "anticipation.") The closest thing in heidegger I can think of that might help us through the issue of suicide are some remarks from the Zollikon seminars but perhaps someone else reading this can say if there's a better reference point. Cheers!

@gewissj

Жыл бұрын

I remember reading Wladimir Solowjew about suicide. I con't find the reference though, but maybe the reference of Solowjew is helpful anyways.

We are Dasein...... but only a very rare few can make the transformation to Dasein. ...hmmm I encountered something similar in "What is called thinking." Heidegger, as well I also say Plato in the philosophizing he invites us to, is enticing us to an initiation and a Way of being (a kind of doing). In both cases I grasp much of what they say. However, it is not like, but actually is, a religion that requires a deep (maybe absolute) belief and trust and at the same time necessarily shuts the doors to other ways, at least one of which is superior. And I have walked on the Platonic path (if not Heidegger's). Edit: indeed you confirm this at 9:00. It's also in "What is called thinking". And also your calling Heidegger's book as 'magesterial.' at 54:00, a couple things: 1) Plato's "idea of the good" in Book six is a big joke and a ruthless critique of metaphysics . Indeed the "idea of the good" is responsible in Plato for all the doxa just as the sun is responsible for all shadows and images in the real world: the inversion of the world of ideas (shadows and doxa) for the real world is a trick by Plato to mesmorize the kalos k'agaothos and make them docile to the philsopher's direction. 2) Plato and philosophy are not very influential in the West from 300 to 1500. The influence is greatly overstated imo and causes us to misrepresent not only the whole history of the West but also to miss completely a long tradition of what Heidegger perceives as missing. Already there is another tradition and a far better Way (not Heidegger's Way, No Way, nor his Wrong Way) of being open to being. Thus this is an exercise in futility to find some "Way" that turns out to be a true no way. The blindness here is both remarkable and not remarkable. 3) As I understand (and it's something Heidegger did not consider), the pre-Socratics already were fundamentally in error in their approach to the underlying being. That is to say, he starts with something already old and decayed, a corruption itself. The false assumption is that any of the Greeks ever got it right: they did not. Heidegger is as much in the dark, I'm pretty sure, as all the rest of the philosophers and he grasps at the first low hanging fruit he sees. Thanks for this as all your work.

Explanation starts at 7:10

Can you point to or share a link to Dugins thoughts/writings on Heideggers work in relation to his (Dugins) Orthodox heart/mindset?

@millerman

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your question. The only thing I've read so far that brings his reflections close to his thoughts on Orthodoxy does not go into details and it is not available in English. I'm referring to some parts of Martin Heidegger: The Possibility of Russian Philosophy, his second Heidegger book. The only other reference that comes to mind, also untranslated, is his lecture course on Phenomenological Readings of Aristotle, wherein he uses a certain structural model onto which he maps various figures, including both Heidegger and some Orthodox (as well as non-Orthodox) mystics. In particular he discusses hesychasm in that lecture course.

I wonder if Heidegger (or Dugin for that matter) got any inspiration from Gurdjieff's Fourth Way or Ouspensky's Fourth form?

Check out German philosopher Heinrich Rombach, who was recommended by Heidegger himself to get into philosophy. Rombach is a highly original thinker, whose works are translated into Japanese and Corean, among other languages, but not into English. A single essay was published in 1966 in "Philosophy Today": "reflections on heidegger's lecture 'time and being'". It is the last chapter of his book "Die Gegenwart der Philosophie" (The presence of philosophy) of 1962, which Rombach published after attending in person Heidegger's lecture.

Good job not letting the chat derail the flow of thoughts

Heidegger says that Dasein is Being-in-the-World; then he gives us four meanings of "World". The question I have is - does the last meaning he give us, "Worldhood" relate to Semiotics. I ask this because it seems to me, he says Dasein is for-the-sake-of-himself and significance at the same time and significance seems to be related to Semiotics. Am I wrong. PS. I think Heidegger says that, the everyday language we have is based on this significance of Worldhood.

How would we posit questions to methodologically get people around us to think about Dasein?

@brucecmoore1657

4 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure, that if you do not come to this yourself through a decision by your Dasein, it will not happen.I have been living as Being-towards-Death since I was twelve years old without being able to articulate or understand my decisions, until I read Heidegger. I tried to explain these insights to several others: once to a fellow soldier my interpretation of Death, twice to Barbers about seeing History ontologically. All this was done with simple terminology,I think . This is only for a few Fated Dasein , not for Das Man.

I exist,I have the right to exist. It played a big role in both German aswell as Russian ideas You hearr man like Dugin mentioned it But Dostoyevsky and Nietzsche played a big role to

eastern philosophy already had dasein figured out for thousands of years, and they didn't need stacks of textbooks to do it lol. the west seeks to elaborate ad infinitum on concepts that should come naturally to us, and only remain obscured by the elitist western aristotelian institutions of logos worship that is the modern education system. this exclusionary "community of scholars" that scoffs at the idea of any interpretation of philosophy being valid if it can't be milked to the bone in endless spewing of word salad mass produced by top publishing companies and droned-on about in lectures halls at top universities. such is the western motivation to achieve and devise new ideologies for the masses to follow in an unrelenting quest for power and dominance in society.

@MrMikkyn

2 жыл бұрын

That was so beautiful and poetic. Gonna save it

@bidorcheng

Жыл бұрын

You are very correct. If you know the history of Chinese language, most characters originated from the octagram of Book of Change. Therefore the concept was already built-in to the language itself.

@env0x

Жыл бұрын

@@bidorcheng yup the i ching is the holy grail of this stuff but difficult to understand for most westerners

@bidorcheng

Жыл бұрын

@@env0x even for Chinese it is very difficult. I have been trying to learn it for years and only beginning to grasp a little.

Great! Thank you! Advaita Vedanta?

What do you think of Edith Stein as a philosopher

Do you think you could possibly shoe-horn in ant more adverts?

@bensanderson7144

3 жыл бұрын

ROTFLMFAO!

@millerman

3 жыл бұрын

I don't really play with advertising settings but if it is interrupting the video, and it sounds like it is, I'll have a look tonight and change that. Cheers

@millerman

3 жыл бұрын

Demonetized it. No more ads. Cheers.

@mrtopper5649

3 жыл бұрын

Michael Millerman I feel bad for being sarcy now. very much appreciated.

Millerman would be greatly criticized by Strauss for his really religious reception of Heidegger and by extension his support of Dugin. Confusing religion and philosophy is always a problem. I get it; the concealing and revealing of Beying is attractive to many in a secular age where and when we want to be spiritual without being religious. This is the legacy of modernity with its latest exponent and continuer Heidegger.

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How do you read heidegger in english? Does not the translation destroy the meaning of his own terms?

@deutscherpartisan4153

4 жыл бұрын

You have to read Heidegger in german

@millerman

4 жыл бұрын

@@deutscherpartisan4153 no you don't. Eventually, maybe. But you can definitely access what Heidegger is saying in English. He discusses language and understanding in a way that is relevant to your question in the preliminary remarks to the lecture course On the Essence of Truth, part 1.

7:10

mr. millerman is so in earnest and so sincere and such a pleasant speaker......and the subject matter is so pathetic and threadbare.....just wordy words about wordyiness.....how much more useful his contribution would be if he had turned his energy and attention to organic chemistry or petroleum engineering

@millerman

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes, who knows what might have been. I do discuss other philosophers but only other philosophers (no hard sciences, etc).

I have just watched Jeffrey Van Davis’s film on Heidegger. Is his philosophy implicated in the horrors that ensued with nazism?

@millerman

Жыл бұрын

The implications are not straightforward. There are books on both sides and some in the middle. My contribution is HeideggerBook.com

@davidgordon7717

Жыл бұрын

@@millerman I appreciate you taking the time to reply so promptly. My daughter married a Jewish boy and we have three grandsons by the marriage. We celebrate with them the major jewish holidays, so Heideggers support for the regime was difficult to swallow. Still it was a film,and the medium can stir up the emotions. Thanks again. I left school at 16 ,so have little formal education, but I am learning much from your videos. Spinoza is a favourite philosopher,even though I am Christian.

I see or interpret myself as an ancestor of American Slavery instead of Africa, because of Heidegger's ontological interpretation of History; we do not say what we see, but see what we say.

Noone/non has a teaching!!! But, repeting/renewing old staf😜 "Nothing new under the Sun"!!! Analizing=dead end! 😇

A lot of these concepts are actually covered by Buddhism some even thousands of years ago

@millerman

Жыл бұрын

I've had some students who spent a life time studying Zen take private tutoring with me about Heidegger and they found the connections helpful and insightful.

@bidorcheng

Жыл бұрын

@@millerman through Chinese Buddhism the explanation is much clearer, like other people commented. It seems Heidegger's explanation through Western philosophy is much a detour because there's so much baggage. I watched your video with Dukin. He thought Chinese philosophy is witchcraft. It shows how little people know about Chinese philosophers.

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I feel like questioning being itself is just dumb. I feel like it stems from a lack of intuition.

tasein = when the scales are equilibrated. God detests uneven scales. tasain = when the measures are evened righteously. God detests uneven measurements.

Dasein's relationship with exi-stence is fundamental, eliminates 13 minutes of this speech

@millerman

2 жыл бұрын

Eliminates 1000s of pages of Heidegger. You can eliminate all thinking and get back to whatever you were doing!

@doublecutnut753

Жыл бұрын

Us more cas-ual viewers appreciate the more lengthy elaboration.

But Heidegger never makes clear who is Dasein? It is obvious today that not all human beings are Dasein.

LOL, thanks for explaining why I should not give a hoot about Heidegger. Exposing garbage is useful, although at some point I would advise moving on to something more interesting. Life is short. Not to mention he was a Nazi, so there's always that. Not an argument as such against him, just food for thought.

People like you and actually reading Heidegger himself make me realize Dreyfus is absolutely wrong or at least is an awful presenter HAHA... Perhaps nothing particular to Dreyfus, but I feel most Heideggerians get too caught up in the jargon and don't really understand the main points.

Too many adverts, one minute every five minutes listening to jarring adverts, unless I go and pick the phone up and skip them. Unlistenable.

@millerman

4 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I didn't know that. I thought it was just the one at the start. There's an audio-only version at SoundCloud.com/millermantalks with no ads.

@ObeySilence

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's disgusting. Sometimes I think about writing down the names of all those companies you see in KZread ads, generally personalised ads, and find out where their headquarters are to attack them physically. Or at least leave negative comments on their website. We need a digital ludism.

@bensanderson7144

3 жыл бұрын

Bahahahaha. That was funny.

Really useless stuff

You are too verbose. Get to the point.

@owenswabi

2 жыл бұрын

How do you figure? He’s just being thorough

@MrMikkyn

2 жыл бұрын

Lol too verbose. You should read the book it’s even more verbose.