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does anyone here actually understand heidegger

is there a cr resource to read to understand him? his wri...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/12/23
i should have asked this before twins "retired" ag...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/12/23
I have tried but no. No I don't.
motley macaca mad-dog skullcap
  01/12/23
so far i think i've gleaned that: -Humans experience mean...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/12/23
he has some things to say about space too that you could pro...
motley macaca mad-dog skullcap
  01/12/23
cr, seems to me like you can derive most of what he thinks f...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/15/23
no and anybody who says they do is lying
know-it-all library pocket flask
  01/12/23
as I recall the being of beings is being, I don't know how y...
Peach alcoholic quadroon
  01/12/23
i vaguely remember derrida describing a web of web of webs. ...
motley macaca mad-dog skullcap
  01/12/23
derrida is 100% flame and I never met anyone outside of an e...
Peach alcoholic quadroon
  01/12/23
i'll even troll for barthes but derrida is absolutely useles...
motley macaca mad-dog skullcap
  01/12/23
something in the Frenchmen's brains broke after WWI
Peach alcoholic quadroon
  01/12/23
came here to scoff at derrida
know-it-all library pocket flask
  01/12/23
cr if there's one thing everyone with half a brain can agree...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/12/23
great head of hair though
Topaz Roommate
  01/15/23
Never read Being and Time. But I did read the Question Conce...
Bisexual cuckoldry rigpig
  01/12/23
that's definitely his best work, although I'm no mfe
Peach alcoholic quadroon
  01/12/23
cliffs? worth reading the original work?
mentally impaired location persian
  01/12/23
yeah it's just an essay and kind of lines up with uncle ted
Peach alcoholic quadroon
  01/12/23
Technology enslaves us and colonizes our minds. The inter...
Bisexual cuckoldry rigpig
  01/12/23
Dasein can only be appreciated by reading the antecedent phi...
Fantasy-prone cerebral church
  01/12/23
i do enjoy hegel's history of philosophy, but you've got to ...
motley macaca mad-dog skullcap
  01/12/23
ok i think i actually understand him now. read a bunch of an...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/15/23
I try to live Dasein, it's very stoic
Big nubile selfie stain
  01/15/23
...
mentally impaired location persian
  09/16/24
extremely simple to understand
Up-to-no-good Sepia Hominid Turdskin
  09/16/24
Yeah, sort of. Man’s fundamental being is quite inacce...
Thriller background story volcanic crater
  01/25/25
Ty
mentally impaired location persian
  01/26/25
This is a full credit answer. I think you have to have some...
Impertinent lascivious internal respiration station
  01/26/25
Cr which Heidegger was doing primarily by plagiarizing Kierk...
Thriller background story volcanic crater
  01/27/25
CR like 50-60% of Heidegger is just Kierkegaard for Athiests...
Impertinent lascivious internal respiration station
  01/27/25
this was a good response and it helped me with thinking abou...
chill internet user with one static pseudonym
  08/13/25
Ty brother. It would need to have a world to navigate
artificial intelligence
  08/13/25
right. human-like AI will never be possible without this. an...
chill internet user with one static pseudonym
  08/13/25
Yeah I understand it and can write clearly about it not flam...
lemon hall
  01/26/25
Heidegger was what made me question my German-ness I thin...
mentally impaired location persian
  01/26/25
Me too brother. Don’t need that homosexual rot from th...
Thriller background story volcanic crater
  01/27/25
the fat fuck from Shinra? what's not to understand?
Startling hot deer antler nursing home
  01/27/25
cq
frank rizzo
  08/13/25
...
artificial intelligence
  08/13/25


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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:46 AM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

is there a cr resource to read to understand him?

his writings are pretty tough to slog through

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45777343)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:19 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

i should have asked this before twins "retired" again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778602)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:20 PM
Author: motley macaca mad-dog skullcap

I have tried but no. No I don't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778605)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:29 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

so far i think i've gleaned that:

-Humans experience meaning through 'Being in the world' - basically, our personal existence and interactions/experiences are what is real and meaningful, and not the rest of the universe around us (?)

-'Time' only appears to be "real"/salient to us because we are mortal and will eventually die, and thus as mortal beings we perceive time relative to this subjective reality

are these even correct? did he say anything else that's worth figuring out?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778665)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:32 PM
Author: motley macaca mad-dog skullcap

he has some things to say about space too that you could probably figure out by analogy from his thoughts on time, but as far as i can tell, you get the majority of it already.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778681)



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Date: January 15th, 2023 10:17 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

cr, seems to me like you can derive most of what he thinks from the principles of his basic ideas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45794824)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:21 PM
Author: know-it-all library pocket flask

no and anybody who says they do is lying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778609)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:21 PM
Author: Peach alcoholic quadroon

as I recall the being of beings is being, I don't know how you can be more clear than that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778610)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:24 PM
Author: motley macaca mad-dog skullcap

i vaguely remember derrida describing a web of web of webs. i think that's probably the clearest idea you could describe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778621)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:24 PM
Author: Peach alcoholic quadroon

derrida is 100% flame and I never met anyone outside of an english department who would say otherwise

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778623)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:25 PM
Author: motley macaca mad-dog skullcap

i'll even troll for barthes but derrida is absolutely useless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778634)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:27 PM
Author: Peach alcoholic quadroon

something in the Frenchmen's brains broke after WWI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778652)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:27 PM
Author: know-it-all library pocket flask

came here to scoff at derrida

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778653)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:30 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

cr if there's one thing everyone with half a brain can agree on, it's that derrida is total fucking flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778670)



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Date: January 15th, 2023 10:14 PM
Author: Topaz Roommate

great head of hair though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45794808)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:29 PM
Author: Bisexual cuckoldry rigpig

Never read Being and Time. But I did read the Question Concerning Technology and it’s not hard to understand.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778664)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:30 PM
Author: Peach alcoholic quadroon

that's definitely his best work, although I'm no mfe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778669)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:30 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

cliffs? worth reading the original work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778671)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:31 PM
Author: Peach alcoholic quadroon

yeah it's just an essay and kind of lines up with uncle ted

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778677)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:43 PM
Author: Bisexual cuckoldry rigpig

Technology enslaves us and colonizes our minds.

The interesting thing is not the thesis, which is common, but his perspective and approach.

Yes it’s worth reading. It’s just a few pages.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778750)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:32 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone cerebral church

Dasein can only be appreciated by reading the antecedent philosophers from Descartes--Nietzsche and understanding how how significantly his idea of "being" differs from others.

I have not read his corpus and can only appreciate sein und zeit on a superficial level.

For Hegel (and a few others), I could give an incredible answer. Henry Silton Harris's "ladder" series systematically and effectively explains everything abput the phenomenology.

Hegel's lectures about prior philosophers really show how he knows his stuff. If you have experience with Descartes, Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Epictetus and others he's a delight to read.

If you have time, read this short chapter:

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hp/hpintroduction.htm

And no, Hegel was not a Marxist. Marx's philosophy was a projection of a part of Hegel's



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778684)



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Date: January 12th, 2023 12:36 PM
Author: motley macaca mad-dog skullcap

i do enjoy hegel's history of philosophy, but you've got to put it in that context of 19th century germanic discovery of vedic literature where they suddenly thought they unlocked the secrets of the ancients and completed the enlightenment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45778707)



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Date: January 15th, 2023 10:13 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

ok i think i actually understand him now. read a bunch of analysis and summaries from other people. fuck reading his original words, he just babbles on forever

doesn't really seem that complex. what i wrote in my reply to lex is more or less the entirety of his philosophy. basically just another existentialist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45794804)



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Date: January 15th, 2023 10:16 PM
Author: Big nubile selfie stain

I try to live Dasein, it's very stoic

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#45794814)



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Date: September 16th, 2024 10:13 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48097091)



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Date: September 16th, 2024 10:15 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good Sepia Hominid Turdskin

extremely simple to understand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48097097)



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Date: January 25th, 2025 11:16 PM
Author: Thriller background story volcanic crater

Yeah, sort of. Man’s fundamental being is quite inaccessible. It is not that of a detached observer (res cogitans) interacting with objects (res extensa) based on rationale thought. Rationale thought in the sense that conclusions can be reached to address any given situation based on the application of logic-based rules like an enlightenment era thinker might hope. There does exist a state of being of detached observation (e.g. when you regard the res extensa and perhaps even talk to yourself about it in your own head in a dualistic manner) but that is derivative of man’s fundamental state of being. Man’s fundamental state of being is something much more at home in the world, and it does navigate the res extensa but without self reflection. An easy example of this is how you can drive your car for hours and deal with all sorts of objects and adapt and maneuver your car without self reflection. In fact this is even more demonstrable in the sense that you actually start to feel like your car is a part of your body as much as you do your arms. It’s further evidenced by the fact that you can’t verbalize, in the sense of describing a formal set of logic bound rules, how is it that you are able to address the situations that came up on the road as they came up. You have after all never driven that same road at that same time under the same circumstances, and an attempt to derive a set of logic bound rules would ultimately be impossible due to the sheer infinitude of situations you would have to apply different and new rules to. That observation can be extrapolated not only to driving a car but as far as cultural practices and moral systems.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48590024)



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Date: January 26th, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

Ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48590949)



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Date: January 26th, 2025 10:55 AM
Author: Impertinent lascivious internal respiration station

This is a full credit answer. I think you have to have some sense of the empiricism v rationalism debate and get through Hume first. And then you have to digest Hegel and Kant and understand how much Husserl and then Heidegger were responding to/addressing/trying to make their names by critiquing especially Hegel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48591036)



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Date: January 27th, 2025 2:35 PM
Author: Thriller background story volcanic crater

Cr which Heidegger was doing primarily by plagiarizing Kierkegaard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48595189)



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Date: January 27th, 2025 2:53 PM
Author: Impertinent lascivious internal respiration station

CR like 50-60% of Heidegger is just Kierkegaard for Athiests.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48595262)



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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:52 PM
Author: chill internet user with one static pseudonym

this was a good response and it helped me with thinking about what it would actually take for AI to have human-like capabilities too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#49182104)



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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:54 PM
Author: artificial intelligence

Ty brother. It would need to have a world to navigate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#49182108)



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Date: August 13th, 2025 3:03 PM
Author: chill internet user with one static pseudonym

right. human-like AI will never be possible without this. and actually, the leading researchers have all converged on this realization within the past ~6 months or so

i've grown to have a lot of appreciation for heidegger since i made this thread btw. his ideas surrounding mortality and its importance for understanding the human condition are especially significant imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#49182133)



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Date: January 26th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: lemon hall

Yeah I understand it and can write clearly about it not flame . It’s about phenomenology - definitely really important but Anglo American gatekeepers think it’s “woo” or whatever bexause it doesn’t autistically divide every silly little concept into terms so they can handwave. Like awew yeah those are supervalent anomalous counterfactuals!” Fuck that I’d rather read Heidegger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48590961)



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Date: January 26th, 2025 4:49 PM
Author: mentally impaired location persian

Heidegger was what made me question my German-ness

I think I might be spiritually Anglo whether I like it or not

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48592153)



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Date: January 27th, 2025 4:08 PM
Author: Thriller background story volcanic crater

Me too brother. Don’t need that homosexual rot from the likes of Bertrand Russell pozzing your mind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48595534)



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Date: January 27th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: Startling hot deer antler nursing home

the fat fuck from Shinra? what's not to understand?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#48595266)



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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:49 PM
Author: frank rizzo

cq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#49182094)



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Date: August 13th, 2025 2:48 PM
Author: artificial intelligence



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269326&forum_id=2#49182093)