An introduction to metaphysics Henri Bergson TE Hulme
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An introduction to metaphysics
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An introduction to metaphysics Henri Bergson TE Hulme
PREAMBLEI read Introduction to Metaphysics this semester at university in an undergraduate course. The course was designed to help students without any prior knowledge about Heidegger develop an understanding of Introduction to Metaphysics.
I encourage anyone who reads this book on their own to use secondary sources to supplement their reading. Heidegger has very specific terminology that he uses throughout the book. If you don't understand what this terminology means, it will be difficult to understand what Heidegger is saying. After all, Introduction to Metaphysics was developed as a lecture course for his philosophy students, those who were familiar with his work.
The title of the lecture course is misleading. If you are interested in an actual introduction to metaphysics, this book is not for you!
Don't give up on Heidegger! Struggle through the book and the reward is immense.
MY THOUGHTS
I very much enjoyed reading this book. It was my first exposure to Heidegger's thought and I think it served as an excellent introduction. I take Heidegger's fundamental question very seriously, "how does it stand with being?" I take seriously his concern that concepts, including being, have lost their originary naming power. Is this true? I have often read works by religious scholars and philosophers who rebuke us modern readers because we have a shallow sense of concepts. They then go on to explain what these concepts mean in their breadth and depth. I ask myself whether it is true that my sense of things is more superficial than my ancestors, especially language, and what technology has had to do with it.
I now appreciate the Ancient Greeks far more than I ever did. They are the fathers of Western civilization. Have they been misunderstood? (Even possibly by Heidegger?) I want to read these ancient texts on my own now.
If anything, this book allowed me to see the gold mines that are our languages, and to seek to use language with great care.
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"Why are there entities at all instead of nothing?" We all ask questions similar to this why is the universe here? What is our purpose? But I know that as an undergraduate Philosophy major, I had never probed into the depth of the question anywhere near as deeply as Heidegger does in his Introduction to Metaphysics.
Rather than offering a deep inquiry into the nature of the material, Heidegger instead relies heavily on the Greek notion of "phusis". In this process, he focuses his concern not only on understanding the way that entities are in the world. Rather, he seeks to understand how we as sense-making entities come to perceive and understand entities at all. His gripping story of a humanity that has gone blind to the nature of existence gives us a deep and confounding question through a process of linguistic decline, have we somehow forgotten what it truly means to be? And if so, is there any hope that we can regain it?
I found that Heidegger's personal life as a sympathizer with the Nazi cause offered an additional aspect of interest to the work. Can we separate the person from the idea, thus retaining value in the philosophy that Heidegger presents? Or is the shaping of the idea driven patently by the person responsible for writing it, making Heidegger's Nazi sympathies full grounds for discounting the work as a whole? While I tend to fall in the former camp, constantly keeping this question in mind gives an additional angle for inquiry.
And perhaps the most interesting aspect of the work is when the reader chooses a definition of what it means to "be" that she feels applies appropriately to all of Heidegger's references of Being. Personally, I viewed the whole of the work through the lens that "to be is to have meaningful presence to us." At the same time, I realize that there is a variety of academic literature that suggests otherwise. Let it be left to the reader herself, then, to decide which exciting interpretation to use.
Overall, this book is an excellent read. It introduces some of the deepest questions that humankind can hope to ask, in a thoughtful way that benefits both the Ph.D and undergraduate student alike.
I am not a philosopher or a philosophy student but enjoyed reading this book because
1. It shows cases some pretty original thinking.
2. The question "why there are beings and nothing at all " is eternal although in today's world many people think there is only the theory of evolution and other "zoological" explanations to this question.Heidegger shows how this question can be posed in way that shows "what" it means to be even if we we know "how"(i.e. evolution, natural selection etc.) we came to be.
3. The whole book is really about clarifying the question and trying to unbundle all the preconceptions about the question.Only towards the end we get a glimmer about what could be the start of an answer.
4. Heidegger is an eloquent writer and this must in large measure must be due to the translator's competence.
5.Yes, there are many reference to Greek words and poems and one does have to read many sections twice but the scope of the book is sweeping so the rewards of a second or third read are well worth it.
6.At the least you will question the familiarity of many words and their everday usage after you read the book and that should hopefully help you think more clearly and equally (if not more importantly, after reading Heidegger..)articulate yourself clearly.
PREAMBLE
I read Introduction to Metaphysics this semester at university in an undergraduate course. The course was designed to help students without any prior knowledge about Heidegger develop an understanding of Introduction to Metaphysics.
I encourage anyone who reads this book on their own to use secondary sources to supplement their reading. Heidegger has very specific terminology that he uses throughout the book. If you don't understand what this terminology means, it will be difficult to understand what Heidegger is saying. After all, Introduction to Metaphysics was developed as a lecture course for his philosophy students, those who were familiar with his work.
The title of the lecture course is misleading. If you are interested in an actual introduction to metaphysics, this book is not for you!
Don't give up on Heidegger! Struggle through the book and the reward is immense.
MY THOUGHTS
I very much enjoyed reading this book. It was my first exposure to Heidegger's thought and I think it served as an excellent introduction. I take Heidegger's fundamental question very seriously, "how does it stand with being?" I take seriously his concern that concepts, including being, have lost their originary naming power. Is this true? I have often read works by religious scholars and philosophers who rebuke us modern readers because we have a shallow sense of concepts. They then go on to explain what these concepts mean in their breadth and depth. I ask myself whether it is true that my sense of things is more superficial than my ancestors, especially language, and what technology has had to do with it.
I now appreciate the Ancient Greeks far more than I ever did. They are the fathers of Western civilization. Have they been misunderstood? (Even possibly by Heidegger?) I want to read these ancient texts on my own now.
If anything, this book allowed me to see the gold mines that are our languages, and to seek to use language with great care.
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