Kinda interesting that "care" is an ambivalent word.
To have a care (noun) is to have burdens and the opposite is being "carefree"
Otoh, being able to "care" (verb) is central to feeling life has meaning. To be depressed is to not be able to care about anything.
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Every so often, I discover I've landed independently on a non-trivial thought Heidegger landed on... but I can't bring myself to read Heidegger in original because too much work and it's literally easier to rediscover. "Being is caring"
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Of course, Heidegger said the meaning of Being is Care, so there’s that…
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In my notes for my next chapter of my book on what I call the "index level" of a temporality (where identity coheres), I have this at the top of the page... now I guess I'll have to go check out what convoluted way Heidegger put it in terms of dasein or whatever
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I'm sure there are lots of key differences too, but I can't really be bothered to read Heidegger and do a diff
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To the extent there's a line of influence, it's through Hannah Arendt, who I *have* read and am able to vibe with. I suspect to a first approximation, my diffs with MH would be the same as hers.
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Someone like Jordan Peterson would say "Exactly!"
Meaning comes from having responsibilities. Not for absolutely everyone, but for most people.
Or as someone else once put it "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose".
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