Subject: Re: Nietzsche and the Philosophes
From: Joshua Stott (jstott@bigplanet.net)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 12:44:34 GMT
My original comment was:
> >Heideggar seems to think that you should be able to pick up Being and
> >Time and start from scratch, reading it all and mostly understanding
> >it... and maybe you can.
To which Anna Lewandowski wrote:
> Dive right into Heidegger and be able to understand it without any
> intro? No... But no matter how great a teacher you have - you can't just start
> Heidegger from scratch and expect to understand it... I mean I consider
> myself a fairly intelligent person and I get completely baffled. The
> first semester we did Heidegger, we spent an entire week on page 10 of
> "Being and Time" alone!
To which I now reply:
I agree. I don't think I meant to imply that you could start from
scratch and understand it. My original comment (simpatically included
above) says that "ol' Martin" seems to think you can. He intends to
just start over and in starting over he invites everyone to begin with
him, exploring Dasein (the being of human beingness -- got it?) which
everyone already as experienced and is in some fashion aware of. That's
what I meant when I said that "Heideggar seems to think that you should
be able to pick up Being and Time and start from scratch". He means
that you already have an intuitive sense about what he's talking about.
And that, I believe, is true. However, I spend the rest of the post
saying that almost any Philosophy, especially Husserl and Heideggar,
requires much background and study.
I empathize with the semester spent in Heideggar and the weeks spent on
one page. I've been there and am the better for it.
Josh
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