Heidegger was undebatably a Nazi.
See Phenomenology.
Background, via Moi
Motivation. Up until now the best metaphysics was by Kant, who wanted to studying things in themselves…but like Plato’s cave you cannot perceive things in themselves. Heidegger then came along and revolutionized metaphysics by saying that studying nothing is also important, and also that it has Existentialist implications.
def. Wissenschaft is any discipline that uses systematic, Rigorous knowledge-gathering, broader than science, including math, analytic philsophy.
hyp. Any metaphysical inquiry is an inquiry into the whole of being. From the specific, it induces questions onto the whole of existence, to ask “what being is”
hyp. Nothingness is an entity to be studied.
- Nothingness is not a negation of all things.
- Nothingness is difficult to study as an entity, because once you make it an entity it ceases to be nothing
def. Dasein and Sein.
- Sein is a thing that exists
- Dasein is the self-perception of Sein that it exists (=consciousness) + questioning, desiring, etc.
- It is capable of percieving the nothing.
- It is capable of asking questions about the being
hyp. Boredom, Anxiety are emotional states useful for studying being and nothingness
- Profound Boredom (everything is uninteresting) encapsulates the whole of being into one emotion
- Abstract Anxiety (fear of nothing in particular) holds Dasein out into the nothing
