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Title: How to escape from philosophy
As we go about our everyday lives, we know full well that the conundrums of philosophy are deceipts concocted by philosphers to fool us into strange notions
But for many of us, it is not so easy to just ignore philosophy... we need to arm ourselves with stronger defences than that.
The escape from #scepticism
The escape from #nihilism
The escape from atheism
Escape from #determinism
The hard problem of #consciousness
Dasein
"I know that that's a tree" ... he is not mad, he is just doing philosophy
Escape plan
#Embodiment vs Representation
#Wholism vs Atomism
#Tools form part of an equipmental totality
#Know-how is primary, #know-that is secondary
Because we are embedded in the world, our evolved biology determines #unavoidable #meaningful #naratives for human lives
#Competence is a process by which a #skill becomes increasingly #transparent in its execution
We live in a #world which is #constituted not by objects with properties but rather by #tools with which we interact
We live in a #world of #action vs. a world of mere perception
This hammer is too heavy ... "too heavy" is not a property of an object, it is an opening for action (or inaction).
#Contact vs. #Mediated
Humans are actors within a world made up of tools (rather than objects) and other humans.
Our primary interaction with the world, the world as it occurs for us, is composed of tools, not objects.
What kinds of being can be said to exist independently of dasein?
Heidegger restates the realism/idealism debate as follows:
An interpretation is thus an act of understanding in which we make what we understand explicit by understanding it #as something.
BAT: That which is disclosed in understanding - that which is understood - is already accessible in such a way that it's "as which" can be made to stand out explicitly.
The #as makes up the structure of the explicitness of something that is understood. It constitutes the interpretation. (189/149)
Interpretation is an "existential derivative" of understanding
Even so Heidegger appears to think the question is badly posed
Since being has been determined to be a set of standards which entities must adhere to if they are to occur as entities
being is not a being
the question ends up asking something like, what happens to entities distinguished by a set of standards in the absence of that set of standards
The answer is that nothing happens to them...
It is not that they cease to exist as much as they never arise
being is the conditions of possibility for beings to occur as what they are
I find Blattner to be a little bit confusing on this topic, but possibly that is because, as he claims, Heidegger is also confused about it
It does seem prety clear though that there is some kind of mistake built into the way the realism/idealism debate is construed
Since our understanding of the world is a function of being familiar with it, vs. being subjects wondering whether the world of objects is dependent on us.
Once again, the traditional debate presupposes that we are subjects in a world of objects.
When dasein does not exist, "independence" "is" not either "is" "in itself".
Heidegger puts "is" in quotes because in the absence of dasein there is no intelligibility ie. no possibility of is.
Speculating about the nature such a hypothetical world, naturally enough, requires a big stretch of our imaginations.
When we imagine a world without dasein we are imagining a world where a large part of what we take for granted is missing
Without dasein there is no being - that is to say no inteligibility (sense-making). This makes sense because there is no one to be doing the sense-making.
It seems to me that although Heidegger thinks the terms by which the debate is traditionally had are inadequate, he is arguably a realist in respect of the present-at-hand
This doesn't say too much about a world as it might be without dasein, but how reasonable is it to ask about such a world?
And Blattner does think that Heidegger is an "idealist" about time and being - what Blattner calls temporal and ontological idealism.
Blattner says according to Heidegger being is a set of temporal structures -
Blattner thinks Heidegger introduces a bunch of useful apparatus in BAT for clarifying r vs i but that he stops short of a clear resolution of the issues
Imposes a #subject-object ( #mind-world ) model onto the basic intuition
The #correspondence theory of truth #interprets Aristotle's basic #intuition to make it a #relation of correspondence between #mind and #world