Sunday, February 26, 2012

Heidegger - from Herbert Dreyfus's course on Being and Time 2nd half

3 types of anxiety:
1) life changing choice
2) death - knowing the possibility of world collapse 
3) guilt - the inability of getting behind background practices

Guilt- every dassein has it. Comes from the inability to get behind ones throwness or in other words get a clear understanding of ones background practices and justify them. This inability is good in that if decisions were clear and precise then there would be an infinite regress of decisions and thus final action would never be made. This is similar to Kierkegaard's leap-of-faith in that what ultimately moves rational beings is a "leap" from one choice to another as opposed to a linking of clear-cut reasons. A machine follows rules in this way, yet has no real room for action outside rules. No possibility to introduce into the machines world leaps across chasms of non-rationality and therefore has no capacity for Guilt in this sense. Guilt permeates human rationality. To realize this baselessness behind ones actions is upsetting in that if you can never really take possession or responsibility for your choices, have no ultimate, clear and distinct reason, then how is one to deal with that. H calls it fleeing when one attempts to hide or cover up this disturbing aspect of our selves.

The better one becomes at a skill the more they can respond to a particular situation rather than a general situation. This can only be achieved through gripping the anxiety of the groundlessness of knowledge. By not grappling with this anxiety is to fetishize rule based modes of action for particular situations, an aproch H resist.

Resolute Dasein - an expert in ones culture, yet unquestioning of their cultural background.

Death: we never get to death itself but live in dying (similar to how a teacher never becomes a teacher but continually does the things for the sake of which of teachering).

Perishing - an organisms physical death

Demise - bringing on the anxiety of non-existence or a world collapse. i.e. things one felt of a meaning no longer are from a world collapse e.g. the past love (world meaning maker) were you cant feel agin for them at all.

Death - possibility of no-more possibilities

Dying - the way of life that takes account of the vulnerably of world collapse

? - end of you

Anticipatory Resoluteness:

Antonioni movies about the uncanniness or unsettldness or groundlessness of the world, never feeling at home in the world.

Heritage not tradition is the stuff genius is drawn. No genius out of a vacuum.

Time onticly is secsesive a past, present, future. Primordially it is  non-secsesive. A verb is non-secsecive. There is no getting to your representation or goal. Ready-to-hand time

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