Heidegger’s inaugural lecture, given at the University of Freiburg.
1929 - 2 years after Sein und Zeit (1927)
This lecture recaps a lot of what Being and Time says; this lecture isn’t as disorienting for people who have read it.
Wilhelm Dilthey initiated a discussion between two different “camps” of sciences - the human and natural sciences.
- Science has an ontic approach - an orientation towards beings (implementations)
Philosophy concerns itself with “nothing,” the negation of science’s concern with beings (the negation of which is nothing) (what later is uncovered as being, spelling with capital B is a bad decision by the translators - according to TA)
| Philosophy | Sciences |
|---|---|
| orientation → nothing? = being | orientation → beings (ontic) |
| das Sein sein | das Seiende seiend |
Being (with a capital B) implies “super-being,” it’s onto-theo-logical, Heidegger disapproves.
When you thematize being, that is when you become a philosopher.
Dasein - “human existence” in Heidegger / Dasein - just “existence” in normal German.
Da-sein: “da” - “there,” “sein” - “being”; “being-there”
Deals extensively with boredom in “world, finitude, solitude”
anxiety vs fear - one is general other is particular
Human being is just a possibility, it cannot be reified.
Exact opposite of Descartes, because Descartes tries to reach certainty, and Heidegger is saying there’s no terra firme.
“Heidegger is EMO, he’s a DARK BOY” so true
Das Nichts nichtet
“Don’t listen to Carnap, [Heidegger] just has weird turns of phrase sometimes”