Hubert Dreyfus on Husserl and Heidegger: Section 1

In contrast to empiricist and rationalist traditions, existentialism proposes and orderless world, vaguely hostile, where people choose their character goals, have an obligation only to "authentic," and may only observe the truth (reality) in moments of anxiety. In this program, University of California, Berkeley philosopher Herbert Dreyfus traces the roots of existentialism from Edmund Husserl's School of Phenomenology, to his pupil Martin Heidegger's theories of das Sein, the threefold structure of activity, authenticity, and nihilism. Dreyfus relates the philosophies of both en to present-day schools of thought.

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[TripolarProductions]

Hubert is beautifully colour co-ordinated with his immediate surroundings. Bryan, on the other hand, is evidently his own boss with those strident, idiocyncratic hues. I love philosophy.

[CainMeadows]

I think I saw this couch in a porno..

[spot5]

Also, I would love to know what philosophers would have to say about those people out there who DO have desires about tables and other objects. Like the woman who supposedly "married" the Eiffel tower.

[spot5]

To the things themselves!

[capgurken]

I was listening to a lecture series on AI theory and was thinking hmmm I wonder if this Hubert Dreyfus is the same guy I watched all those phenomenology on youtube videos.....nah. But wow it turns out it was. What a guy writing existentialism and also critiquing the thinking computer for the RAND Corporation. So much for anyone who says phenomenology is irrelevant. I was thinking hmmm some of this does sound like phenomenology like the periphery of our field of consciousness.

[2TheThingsThemselves]

To the Things Themselves!

[BlindBlannche]

@ofcoursehesthefarmer but is the life of the mind really devoid of free unprecedented personal expression? can you not be active, exude your Self, and not be overtaken by superficial materiality, rather than be lazy and repress your spirits. For instance, Tibetan Buddhist Robes tend to be extremely colorful. If you are living a life of the mind you are caged within the petty convention of the material body. come outside, it is lovely out.

[TheDavid2222]

Bryan Magee is such an incredible human being. He really is.

[ofcoursehesthefarmer]

@TripolarProductions Sir, I am sitting in front of my computer wearing only my dun-coloured underpants and I have to say that I resent your implication that a 'hue' is in some sense indicative of personality - and therefore moral worth. On the contrary! My very moral worth lies in the fact that I have eschewed the petty conventions of dress and elected to lead the life of the mind. Good day to you.

[carlo88moe]

@tbarjify well the crowd is diverse BC Heidegger was so...Sartre stems from Heidegger for a completely different reason than, say, Foucault....the only ones still blooming perhaps are the postmodernists, existentialism is kinda dead, save for some bourgeois effeteness every now and again

[carlo88moe]

@SkormFlinxingGlock i'd say more postmodern, but hey, that's me