Subject: Re: Nietzsche and the Philosophes
From: Anna Lewandowski (AnnaLew@att.net)
Date: Thu Jun 29 2000 - 20:40:50 GMT
>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.
Dive right into Heidegger and be able to understand it without any
intro? No. Here is my favorite sentence from Heidegger: Being is always
the being of a being. Um... yeah it is... I've never read any other
philosopher who uses the word being in a sentence more than he does. Not
only that but he makes up the weirdest word phrases to describe things,
like "ready-to-hand" and "Being-in-the-world" and stuff like that. But
other than those little quirks, I really enjoyed Heidegger. I liked his
ideas on anxiety and death.
But then again I had an excellent teacher for "Being and Time" so that
may influence my feelings a bit about ole Martin...
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!
Anna
PS Sorry if I rambled up there - I don't think I have a coherent thought
in my head now... :)
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