Rick Roderick on Heidegger - The Rejection of Humanism [full length]
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- This video is 2nd in the 8-part video lecture series, The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1993).
Lecture notes:
I. Heidegger developers a powerful account of meaning by recasting traditional talk of the self and the human into an analysis of "Dasein", literally "being there". He hopes to discard much of the baggage of the philosophical past in a kind of "deconstruction" that has, and continues to be, very influential with thinkers as diverse as Derrida, Macuse, and Sartre.
II. We should not let Heidegger's infamous connect to fascism blind us to his real insights. It is sad, but true, that even very bad people may have important things to teach us.
III. Heidegger does not begin with a "method". He begins by beginning. He offers a hermeneutic of Dasein, or the historical and cultural self. A hermeneutic is a narrative, a story , whose humans are always already interpreting beings and, from this, the analysis of Dasein can begin.
IV. In "Being and Time", Heidegger is guided by the distinction between Being and being. The only priority of human being or Dasein is that we are the beings that ask the question concerning the meaning of Being (what does it all mean?). He is no "humanist", rather it is Being that draws his concern toward Dasein which he proceeds to analyze across the dimension of time.
V. Humans relate to the past by being "thrown" into a world. This means we are socialized and have a language and a view of the self already. Thus, it is impossible to begin without a structure of prejudices as built into our culture and our history.
VI. Humans relate to the present as "being at home in or not being at home in". This means that we try to find a satisfying place view of ourselves and out world.
VII. Humans relate to the future as "being ahead or ourselves" or "on the way to". This means that we formulate projects and make plans. The fundamental structure thus revealed is that humans are beings who care, who have concern. This can be seen in what they build and do even more than in what they say or think.
VIII. Anxiety before death is the fundamental human mood, since death is the end or our projects and our concern. For Heidegger, authentic existence must not "flee from" this insight into the unthinking mass of people (the "they"), but rather use this insight to give meaning and purpose to our projects. Such projects are "free for" and "free from" the stifling yoke of conformity to "the they" or what other people think.
IX. Against Heidegger's powerful account of being human it can certainly be argued that "authenticity" is too abstract as a means to measure our projects. One can be an authentic Nazi, for example, just as well as an authentic Christian. Heidegger gives us absolutely no grounds for choosing one over the other.
X. Authenticity will be important in our account of the self, as will care and concern with a project, but it will not be enough to save the self under siege as the case of Heidegger himself makes clear.
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"Instead of investigating salamanders, newts or analytic philosophers, he tries to investigate human beings." 12:10
This looks and sounds like I'm watching one of those televised Southern Baptist preachers but instead of hell and salvation, he's talking about Heiddeger and Humanism.
its supercool
Hell yea! Feels like that’s not blind coincidence, considering the Texan accent. Wonder if it’s intentional, but imagine how less valuable this series would be if he were straining to put on airs of sophistication
Spectral V like Billy Graham / Adrian Rodgers
The best lecture I've enjoyed for a long time continue the good work
Not humanism but Being ;)
Listening to Rick never gets old. He sits on the tack sharpened on one side by pop culture and on the other decades of philosophical reading and consideration.
love hearing someone with this accent say heideggar and dasein and stuff
and "profound" lol
high-digger!
Close your eyes and imagine it's Zach Galifianakis.
Louis Burke lol
Not your typical country bumpkin.
I think this is the best standup I have ever heard
All his jabs at analytic philosophy are pretty hilarious mostly b/c they're so spot on
He is exactly what I expected philosphers would be like when I was a wee baern
But where is the problem? Most philosophy that I have been reading is plain language "analytic" philosophy published in journals like the Monist, and it looks like they make progress, unlike the fence-sitting continentals.
Matthew Kwak "progress"
@@matthewkwak8934 lmao "progress"
@@marchdarkenotp3346 Found the Cuntinental. Also, try to actually answer my question rather making those petty jabs you seem to like. Boy, that shows how really "deep" you are.
slavoj zizek does a good southern accent
he does indeed look like slavoj zizek.
So tired of that guy.
No, Bill Hick's texas accent is completely appropriate.
haha
despite the (small) physical resemblance, Rick makes sense. Zizek doesn't. That dude is an entertainer. Rick is a philosopher. Quite different stuff, if you ask me.
I think it takes a very special kind of skill to take complex ideas and explain them in a way that makes sense to everyone.
The CZcams channel Plastic Pills is excellent at this as well: czcams.com/users/PlasticPills
"Salamanders, newts or analytic philosophers". 👍
My biggest fear - growing old without having a story worth telling
Hope you’ve told them now
Grab a story from some unpublished and unpublishable novel and tell it
I think Rick Roderick is slightly misunderstanding the rapport to death in our societies. He claims in the video that people nowadays have evicted the question of death. Nobody thinks about it anymore; we're too busy shopping, watching television, dieting, and so on. Therefore, according to Rick, Heidegger's focus on being-towards-death is somewhat outdated. I disagree with this view.
I think that our relationship to death is actually that of repression. It's not that we moved along and the existential angst we have towards it has disappeared. Rather, we as a society, on the collective unconscious level so to speak, have moved in a direction that occults anything that has to do with death. The symbolic relation that humans had to death has largely disappeared: the dead slow us down, and so we have gotten rid of them. But our problem is the return of the repressed: we try to get rid of death, but death haunts us in different and more indirect ways. Instead of death disappearing from our horizon, it has become embedded in our very lives. Instead of living life-without-death as we would like to, we live life-in-death. And that produces the very example he uses himself: the jogging people, the beauticians and make-up artists, the diet coke, the yogis, the hysteria of health, etc. This is also what explains our fascination with machines and robots, which counterpart is the hate of what is actually human, too human. It may also explain the over-presence of death in our cultural artifacts, from movies to video games. Even music itself... (think death metal, black metal, hardcore hip hop, etc.). In many ways, there has been a shift or a transformation in our apparent attitude towards death, but by in large, Heidegger's core statement about being remains as true as ever. It's just the anxiety takes different forms. But it's still there.
The ending to this kills me. He was at a "meaning of life" type moment, saying "that's important to being human. Fear death and realize..." and cut off. lol.
Ha I know this comments a couple years old, but I just noticed that looking for the transcript for someone that that part and that chunk that cuts out right after he says "I guess they don't call it the big bang anymore" (I was really interested in that part too) are both in it. Apparently he said "Fear death and realise that even if you don’t smoke, and even if you jog, you are still going to die, and that should come as a great relief to all of you. Thank you." which sums it up really in a way only he could.
rickroderick.org/302-heidegger-and-the-rejection-of-humanism-1993/
If you think the core of Nietzsche's philosophy is self indulgence and the search for pleasure, you just haven't read Nietzche. He repeatedly stressed that driven by the Will to Power, a person might endure all kinds of sufferings and sacrifice in the process of self-overcoming. Rick focused far too much on political power and power over others. Nietzsche talks about cells and protoplasm having Will to Power. The power of growth, expansion. The power of Life. Power over others is Force.
Here is philosophy in action. Love this man. RIP.
Good, but Rick was referring to those participating in the then-new fitness craze in order to "look younger" and those trying to live longer simply for its own sake. Conforming to social norms of beauty and fleeing from death are both inauthentic behaviors per Heidegger. Anyway, it's unimportant what activity Heidegger would classify as inauthentic. Conforming to H's standards would itself be inauthentic. Note that Rick warns even reading Being & Time could become its own "kind of stairmaster"!
The Partially Examined Life I talk a lot of shit about post modernism on your videos but I appreciate the posts.
Your comment is a really good way to put it. Couldnt one also say that the nazi pure race ideology is a form of inauthenticity as it projects evil onto non aryans so as to be able to project the aryan as pure? One big problem with most ideology is the otherizing of outsiders. In fact I think thats a good point a post modernist might make.
Why is it Rick Roderick could make the most abstruse philosophy sound like common sense?
Heidy has a lot of "common sense" in him. Just his language is a bit hard to understand sometimes
I think it’s the accent, just makes him seem so relatable.
because it might be common sense
Texans are generally just good at that kind of thing
Texas, Son...
So many comments defending exercise. Don't be ashamed about physical fitness friends. Rodrick wasn't ridiculing exercise in general; exercise fads and quick fixes seemed like his target to me.
Maybe if he had exercised he would not have died of heart disease in his early 50s He was assuming he'd get the 72 a relative got. Oh well.
I think it's the single-minded obsession with fitness and that this might reveal an unthinking refusal to accept the inevitability of death and ageing (a mindless escapism) that was his target.
agreed. but he might be interested in the connection between fitness and mood. exercise might help you live a tiny bit longer (in comparison to geological time) but it also helps general wellbeing. if you exercise you are less likely to be depressed.
ridiculing exercise is ridiculing life
Thanks to whoever uploaded this.
Great lecture, insightful and inspiring. Thank you for the upload.
"Is to want to make your life a STORY." Pause the tape again--this is mind-blowing, and pieces of the puzzle of Heidegger here begin to fall into place. Thank you for this, Rick Roderick.Also thanks for the explanation of ANXIETY. As children, Catholics, we were taught about SIN, not anxiety. Thanks to Heidegger's new definition of Being, we can now evolve from the problem, into more meaningful SOLUTIONS. But we can never rest on our laurels, because anxiety is part and parcel of who we are. Thus we are back to the ancient Greek wisdom: KNOW THYSELF. Now let's continue on...
Honored to have hung out with Rick Roderick at the Durham Waffle House late night. Thankful for RR
I was going to make the obvious comment that he’s been dead for 17 years but then I realized I’m sitting at lunch watching this and pretty much hanging out with him as well. Your comment made me rethink a lot about philosophy (or at least what it should be), cheers!
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34:21 *freedom to pursue one’s life project* “I’m gonna feel free to engage in my project without worrying about what *they* told me about how I should do philosophy. So I think there’s a moment of truth or a moment of interest in Heidegger’s account. Also, it’s made me rather short and sharp with small talk-it really does. I mean it makes me where people go _’well gee you know the weather today is just... che ehh ugh uhh’_ you know. I mean I’m sorry but I prefer conversations about sex, religion, politics, of course being a man-sports. But if it’s not something that you know _grabs me_ I feel perfectly free to go _’well it’s chatter-I haven’t got time for it-be dead soon, can’t do it.’”_
Thank you for these videos, really appreciate it!
Is it just me or does the video and audio break up between 34' and 34'24" ? After that, there seems to be a lag between the two.
it does
You’re not alone, buddy
right at the best moment too
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Here's a version with a fixed sound
If anyone is still curious
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Best uploads of all time. The "partially examined life" guys know what the hec they are doing.
The jab at Jesse Helms around 5 minutes in is much appreciated from a fellow North Carolinian.
Rick Roderick is such a mensch.
Übermensch :-D
16:24 Just realized Jim Morrison must've been referencing Heidegger with the lyric "into this world we're thrown".
I wish we got to experience the magic and genius of Jim Morrison so much more than we did.
I like his thinking and this lecture is really eye opening. Like his rant about people trying to be young into their older age not accepting responsibility, but exercising, or jogging can have substantial benefits. And to discount those who working to improve their health is too miss the mark but i think he might be suggesting people's obsession with youth, and unwillingness to mature and evolve and use running in place as a substitute for aging
Thank you for uploading this lecture, it made me start Reading Sein und Zeit.
Reading it in German, I have an issue with his use of the self.
The self is the main subject of his lecture, but the way he equates self with Dasein seems odd to me, especially regarding Heideggers concept of Jemeinigkeit. Jemeinigkeit describes the the possibility of something to be itself or not to be itself. Jemeinigkeit is defined by giving Dasein designation (Bestimmung). Now if the Dasein is itself (eigentlich) or not (uneigentlich) does not give less degree of being to the Dasein. Also the Dasein having the possibilty to be its true self (eigentlich) or not (uneigentlich) makes equating both concepts impossible.
I think Rodericks topic of the lectures self-under-siege fits much better with Heidegger's Jemeinigkeit related context of the true (eigendlich) self, since the self-under-siege is an entity that can be harrassed (Otherwise the siege would have no meaining).
The Dasein in contrast might not have an antagonist. But I'm not sure, I just started getting into it and glad for any reply.
I hope it's not a stairmaster for us.
thanks for the upload x
You're all familiar with remarks like, "well, they say" or "they say". 24:20. He's an unpretentious and wonderful explainer.
Great until 33.57 when there is some sort of malfunction. Still, have really enjoyed and appreciated the videos of these lectures. Kindest thanks!
Wonderful speaker and educator.
I enjoyed this immensely thank you.
I could be wrong, but I see the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, whether he meant it or not, as self affirmation and the search for authenticity through narcissism ( Greek master morality). An individual's desire for power and domination is a by-product of that. The fact that this passes for "authentic" is an outgrowth of petty bourgeois angst. He's right to see the patterns of life beginning at the molecular level. However, cell structure, imo, is more about harmony than "power."
these talks are wonderful!
Using the virginia reel as example of knowing/learning your culture is brilliant.
As with the virginia reel, mot knowing the set up or where to stand could find you with an unhappy partner, or not depending on your preference
With regard to Rick's comments about fitness, it could be said that committing yourself to a healthy lifestyle and physical fitness cannot necessarily be construed as unauthentic. I think there needs to be a distinction made between doing something for image and approval of the 'they' vs spending time on a project because one finds personal value in it. Just because a project doesn't have significant impact on the advance of the human race doesn't disqualify it as authentic or worthwhile.
cimmeriantower I agree. I think he would agree that what is reprehensible in the image of someone running for hours a day is not so much the activity itself so much as the idea of mindless indulgence in empty cultural values. If it is something that you value precisely because YOU value it, then I think it constitutes something else entirely - certainly something much more admirable.
Great lecture!
Wow I love this man
reducing "Dasein" to "self" makes for an interesting conversation, but it sacrifices the abstraction level that makes Heidegger such a pivotal thinker
I wonder what would happen if each of us had have all our teachers like Rick Roderick.
The stairmaster bit is a perfect example of a neurotic and backwards-facing culture. Some might see it as a small detail, but it's a sign of a larger pathology.
I'm guilty
Running on the treadmill.. I used to think the same thing but now that I'm older I really appreciate the ability to run in a controlled safe environment. And running on the treadmill in a gym is so much more real than most activities that may or other people do these days lol.
20:51 *The mood that reveals what Dasein really is is* _anxiety_
4:55 *The non-footnoting public* “I’m going to attempt to do it in forty-five minutes-now, for Heidegger scholars this is an _obscenity,_ but I mean we’re trying to cover a lot of material in a short while. And we’re also trying to cover it in a way where what you might call _the non-footnoting public..._ I don’t want to call them non-scholarly because many people read many more books than academics [...] I’m talking about the non-footnoting public, you know people who haven’t footnoted every article on Heidegger-we’re gonna try to make the account popular in that sense, I have no problem with that-I also want it to be as accurate as I can.”
I’m sure someone had brought this up before but this reminds me so much of Bill Hick’s ideas. A bit kinder and softer though.
Was listening to this on my run. Had to stop because I was dying from laughter at the point he talked about running :))
Haha, indeed! 😃💪
Great talk, I like the humor. It is truth, the working on the body, how to look younger, how to look like models, it is crazy. But there is also another side...
Anyway I do yoga, I have to watch out:))
22:54 “We’re not depressing people here, we’re not trying to depress people but these are structures of the selves-these aren’t symptoms that Phil Donahue or Oprah Winfrey can fix! To be asked to be cured of your fundamental despair, your anxiety, is to ask to be cured of what little self you may have. It is a stupid thing to even want in a way because it is our anxiety that makes us look at how we came up from the past.”
Well the "I' is an equiprimordial moment of Dasein. It is not a matter of replacing the "i-self" by Dasein. the 'I' is included in Dasein.
Roderick could not be more eloquent talking about the ills of society. He is a modern Socrates. Someone who got too close to the truth for the status quo to handle and so he was quieted (fired from Duke). Whoever says anything that is not constructively negative on this post is part of the problem. The truth hurts, but it is the truth.
"Constructive negativity" made me chuckle. Boy if that's not all we've had for centuries.
31:17 “The recognition of ones own nothingness in ones own death is the ultimate possibility. This recognition and acceptance frees us for our projects.”
And the next step is self-reflexivity, to recognize components of your own ideological footprint so you don’t stumble into fascism like Heidegger.
Looking forward to the next one, on Sartre, who appears to have taken this torch of light he received from The Master, and to have run with it, so to speak...
great lecture!!
10:57 *Being vs being* “Classically in philosophy there was a distinction drawn between “Being” with a capital _B,_ which is a philosophical way of writing God or fundamental entity-Being, big _B)_ and “beings”, entities, like one among which is dasein.”
“If we are to understand the problem of Being, our first philosophical step consists in not “telling a story”
Heidegger, M., & Robinson, E. (2008). Exposition of the Question Of The Meaning of Being. In J. Macquarrie (Trans.), Being and Time (7th ed., p. 26). introduction, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought.
Hermeneutic is not the ‘English equivalent’ of narrative or story.
MH says explicitly that we do not begin by “telling a story”.
That being said this belongs to the most engaging lecture series that helped me jump from YT lectures to the text themselves.
Checkout Sugrue and Calhoun lectures on Heidegger.
Love this!!❤❤
Heidegger is ok, but I myself will deal a heavier blow to philosophy. Rick Roderick is tha man. Love these lectures.
at the very end ; "Remember, Fear Death and .... ". It is cut off.
This is quite good. I would suggest an alternative translation for "das Man" not the-they but "everyone" That's Jean-Luc Nancy's suggestion and it makes sense.
Love Bill, does he have lectures on analytical philosophers?
28:19 “Now I mean sure-some people are afraid of death and other people are afraid of being seen carrying people magazine. I mean we live in a society that may be _far_ too superficial for the account I’m giving, so I’m hoping to try to make some sense out of it. I mean different things bother different people. I mean the culture that really scares me is the one in which death has no significance for our projects-that’s the culture in which the self is under siege.”
I took exam on Heidegger 1979 in Bergen Norway and later I have studied the eastern Vedanta Philosophy. And found that both asks the same questions and points out the same point about Dasein as the being that asks questions about being. Vedanta sutra starts: atathatha brahma jijnasa: "Now, therefore (as you have come to human life) it is time to ask about Brahman - Being ("Was ist Sein").
Confirms that this is THE question of philosophy and this is THE special mission for humans. Technology all beings have in their way anyway.
Sorry but I find those the least interesting questions we can ask. You’re entitled to your tastes, and I only comment to make you aware that it is a unique set of tastes. I find interesting what is true when humans are removed from the equation. I want to know about objective reality and escape this self-indulgent subjectivity. Humans have existed for such a short time in such a small space as to be essentially irrelevant to whatever is actually going on in the universe. Perhaps reality is inaccessible but it is far more important to me.
21:36 “This account of the mood of anxiety I’m about to give you briefly is not the kind of anxiety for which you run to the doctor or the psychiatrist and you take a Valium or talk it out or get on a damn twelve-step program-because it is an anxiety in before the fear of nothingness. It’s an anxiety in the face of death. I don’t want to make it sound too scary but I’ve already said it is a democratic institution, it is something you need to deal with. And again we’re looking for universal structures. One of the structures of all stories about the selves, even the ones we tell ourselves, no matter how disconnected they may be.. they end in this rather interesting institution-death. Very interesting institution. Well he examines the mood of anxiety then not as a mere mood that just comes upon you once in awhile, but as an _underlying structure of what it means to be human._ In other words *if you remove this anxiety you would also remove the self.”*
I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated
Ultimately, I believe, all philosophy has an underpinning of existential madness.
27:50 “Being free in this sense is not an easy thing to want to be-let me just say that right away.”
Real existentialist! Great!
I concur with your interpretation. And I don't think Rick was criticizing any activity done for its own sake.
Hahaha, best comment I've read in months. Brilliant analogy. However, I think Rick lacks the classic "and so on and son" of Zizek.
And thank you for an actual response! I think that's the first time I haven't been berated with nonsense from a CZcams comment...
Rick Roderick reminds me of Bill Hicks. Both were truly excellent people.
i appreciate it when he says, " there has been a shift" in the self....an idea of destiny....like in the fighters at the alamo, or in Oddysseus; that talk show hosts are not living in the same register- and that has been lost in modern civilized humans. THe fleeing from self, fleeing from death.... with the stairmaster and chasing youth...right! i totally dig this guy, he;s funny. And, yeah.. Athena transformed Oddyseus, so no stairmaster necessary.
Like James', "Ulysses", Heidegger's, "Being and Time", is a must read. Now, is the 'event horizon'.
20:00 West Texas doesn't have moods! We have fighting words, but no moods.
The thing about exercise is it's also improves how you feel when you're alive
not as good as you would feel if you spent your time trying to know yourself in order to fight back against the micro forces of power that seek to control your mind and thus life.
Because you can literally only do one thing with your life ever, right?
Aristotle's Peripatetic School was incorporated with the gymnasium.
This is the school which was both wise enough AND fit enough to get out before Athens, Rome, Persia and El-Andalus fell to Neo-Platonism.
The West would have had no Renaissance without these 'Rangers' (as Tolkien styled them). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school
What 's wrong with these videios between 33:58 and 34:21?, Can that bit be found somewhere else?
Óscar Maldonado
Yeah the completionist in me is deeply frustrated to miss out on that part haha
33 minutes 57 seconds the video loses audio and some video
Time to study philosophy whilst on the stair master!
There is a fixed version of this lecture here: czcams.com/video/1rvC93-6D6Q/video.html I had to splice in some audio from the corresponding audio tape, however only the video stops, the audio continues and has been resynced. It also has an extra 15 seconds of audio at the end.
source can be downloaded from here if you would like to fix your version: rickroderick.org/download/1993%20Self%20Under%20Siege/2%20-%20Heidegger%20and%20the%20Rejection%20of%20Humanism.avi
It's like I hear the words and recognise them, but I do not understand them. I don't think I could explain any of what I just heard. Does anyone else have any tips on how to better assimilate and understand philosophy?
i´m answering you, because you ´ve asked😁. What you wrote with your own way auf saying it, .... is , in my oppinion..... what philosophy is all about. An attempt - trying to find an answer to a question. I´d say : keep on going /trying / reading /watching & etc ( in this sence ) what you have been doing so far.
Ps. 1 - This way is just yours. 2 - My answer is my answer, find yours. 3 - Perhaps they are other people with their own answer/s for you.
It’s hard. I think creating some notes, perhaps a spreadsheet on influential philosophers, the time they were alive, their key ideas and their key influences. It’s a long dig and exceptionally hard to have well-rounded knowledge which can make it difficult to discuss with people who can talk from multiple angles.. especially aggressive types who love to dominate conversations and make themselves look good (the worst kind of person!!)
Sometimes you have to take a step back to find the way. So what is an advance anyway?
IX. It is right to put authenticity into its proper place. Heidegger was well aware that the analysis of logos proceeds authenticity. Authenticity means nothing without having a theory of knowledge at hand to judge it. More than anything else, authenticity is a reflection on the status of self (Dasein) in his environment mediated by the self, and more cannot be expected. It would be hard not to admit you are a wolf if you live only among wolves.
Interesting lecture. I thought that only Althusser had critized the Humanist ideology.
Sérgio Braga Heidegger is the original anti-Humanist. Before it was cool!
@@duffharris9295 max stirner was critiquing humanism before heidegger was born.... he was the reason marx abandoned it....
Sorry he's gone. Wonderful stuff.
Re: Odysseus and the Stairmaster™. Rick forgets that there was a shit-ton of rowing involved. The wind was not always favorable, not the least because he'd both pissed off Poseidon and because his crew had opened the bag of unfavorable winds passed to him by Aeolus.
Love this guy! However, he doesn't seem to realize that exercise doesn't necessarily mean avoiding death. Treadmill's and stair masters also allow us to enjoy health in the present, are psychologically challenging, and are directly connected with increased happiness. It may be his own justifications cloud his vision a bit.
yes... one gets to that pretty quickly ... its a common path for overweight smokers to go down lol ,,,, vitality is actually a totally present moment consideration,,, longevity means little ...
Allan Groves Yes. Though often an attempt to live longer or look younger, exercise is also a way to avoid feeling so shitty in the present that the time saved by not exercising is mostly spent groaning in pain.
You're got to love the symbolism of the Stairmaster though.
It seems that people are not really getting the main point, and that it is not an attack on exercise but on the type of exercise (symbolic as mentioned by previous commenter).
indeed, perhaps that skill is comprehension, which is a feat in itself. It's hard to explain because the topics at hand are hard!
Does anyone know if Prof Rick Roderick was at Texas at the same time as the sociologist George Kirkpatrick, a professor at San Diego State University who died about the same time as Roderick of the same ailment. They had, it seems, common interests and perspectives and even, to me, a physical resemblance.
is he not describing qualities and functions but avoiding the question as to whether there is a self as an a priori entity, which buddha denied in his anatta doctrine
While I disagree with some of his views on Nietzsche, Roderick is a fantastic teacher.
wait a sec didnt he listen to the interview with heidegger where he describes in detail what he means exactly when he speaks of the "dasein" which is "the nature of the human"? Its kind of important to listen to it carefully to understand Heidegger
Is moral criticism the same as moral judgement??
15:23 Maybe Rick Roderick and Slavoj Zizek are the same Cylon model.
Man, it freezes at 33:56 !
Timeless
I imagine one day running into this man in a sports bar
The account of authenticity he gives is a little bit wrong, it’s also about being more open to the potentiality of others outside of yourself, it enhances not only your own destiny but the destiny of others. This is a huge difference