Dear micro-philosophers,
I am incredibly excited because by the end of this week, you will all have achieved something very impressive.
Making it through the introductions to Being and Time is a major intellectual achievement.
Congrats!
You should also, at this point, start to have a better idea of what Heidegger is proposing to do in the work and why it matters not just to the history of philosophy, but to humanity.
These difficult sections contain Heidegger’s revolutionary remarks about “phenomenology” and “hermeneutics”, and help us understand the method through which Heidegger will carry out his investigation.
Every philosopher has a method, and Heidegger’s is incredibly fascinating.
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If you want to check in with yourself and see how you are understanding the work, I recommend reading section 8 very slowly and seeing if you can understand what he is saying there.
Section 8 contains an incredible condensed summary of everything we have been discussing so far and serves as a kind of “test’ …
