Inspiring invitation to philosophy in the mode of Nietzsche and Heidegger: @JohannesAchill with @dgozil. Dry and technical at the beginning, but then wide-ranging and largely accessible.
I resonate strongly with most of what he says (same influences!)https://anchor.fm/intellectualexplorersclub/episodes/Johannes-Niederhauser---In-Touch-With-What-Always-Has-Been-ebetkr …
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Is it fair to say that, when Johannes talks about philosophizing to come back around “to that which was: Being,” he’s referring to roughly what you call the complete stance? And in our continual renegotiation of what it is to Be, we get caught in various fixations along the way?
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Well, I can’t speak for Johannes, and it’s been ~30 years since I read the relevant works of Heidegger (which I may not have understood correctly) so anything I’d say is highly tentative. The “coming back” theme has to do with H’s reading of Ancient Greek philosophy, >
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> and I mostly haven’t read the Greeks (and mostly don’t like them based on the little I’ve read and secondary sources). H’s take on them was heavily influenced by the German Romantics, particularly Hölderlin, who I haven’t read at all (apparently he’s nearly untranslatable)
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What does resonate for me here is the sense that modern philosophy has been mostly a losing-one’s-way, a counterproductive diversion into technical pseudoproblems and clever one-up word games that no one should care about.
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So inasmuch as “the complete stance” addresses our actual way of being, maybe it does reflect a “return” to questions that matter, as Ancient Greek philosophy did. OTOH, afaik the understanding of the question which H developed in B&T is quite alien to Greek thinking.
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Re “in our continual renegotiation of what it is to Be, we get caught in various fixations along the way?”: B&T is also a nosology of ways of being, but the specifics are pretty different from what I’ve explored.
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Thanks for this! Perhaps I should use quarantine as an opportunity to actually dive into Heidegger! I’d roughly been mapping ontotheology onto eternalism (grounding Being in fixed, supreme being), leading to a forgetfulness of Being as a necessarily ongoing process.
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Yes, that seems right to me (but I haven’t read Heidegger’s key works on this issue, nor subsequent discourse).
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Usually I recommend reading Dreyfus before Heidegger, but he does introduce some distortions and has a different agenda. For you it might be better to go straight to the original, or to other secondary sources.
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