Politics and Metaphysics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- What is the connection between how we think about politics and how we think about metaphysics, ontology, or first philosophy?
That’s the question that’s always interested me most.
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Interesting discussion, but I don't think Heidegger is the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, as we had Xavier Zubiri, Louis Lavelle and some others who seem to me to be greater, despite their not being so studied.
I haven’t heard of these thinkers! What did they study and write about? I’d love to know more.
@@SageStudiesGunnarFooth Look for their works; there are likely to be some English translations. Louis Lavelle is incredibly brilliant; it's worth learning French just to read him in the original. Eric Voegelin is also a good philosopher, although not, in my opinion, as exceptional as Lavelle. However, you should find Voegelin's works more easily.
@@SageStudiesGunnarFooth Some opinions of important thinkers about Louis Lavelle (because their opinion is more valuable than mine):
A. D. Sertillanges referred to him as 'the Plato of our time.' Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron regarded his work, Dialectic of the Eternal Present, as 'an astonishing masterpiece, the most significant system of metaphysics in the 20th century.' Sebastian Robert described it as 'a true philosophical cathedral.' Olavo de Carvalho stated that he could only be considered a true disciple of Aristotle and Louis Lavelle. And Paul Ricoeur referred to Lavelle's work as 'a treasure trove yet to be fully explored by the world'.
@@Bob-hr1rjmeteu um "Olavo de Carvalho" no meio! 😂
Amazing as always
Man I would love to hear a discussion between yourself and Dayz of Noah.
Go on red scare
The multidimensional world of the political and the multidimensional realm of the philosophical is bridged with a restrictive linear language system. By building multidimensionalism into our language systems the collective can widen the tunnel of Plato’s cave and it’s inhabitants can come and go freely and gain wisdom.
It's obviously dangerous for a non-Russian reader to comment on Dugin given that so much remains untranslated but I see nothing in Dugin's current politics (as expressed eg on the Katehon website) that reflects Heidegger's 'new beginning'. I can't see any difference between the Fourth Political Theory and classical counter-revolutionary politics that goes back to Joseph de Maistre. At least insofar as he's recommending something positive - for Russia. For us in the West he rather recommends 'riding the tiger' (which might be fun). In the Russian context he has recently asserted that by 'dasein' he means the 'full-fledged person' that would emerge from the recent Russian Presidential decree on 'On approval of the fundamentals of state policy on preservation and strengthening of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values.' That is how he would distinguish dasein from the liberal 'individual', who can be just any old person. The thing about Heidegger's new beginning, as I see it, is that it is actually radically 'new' in the way Parmenides in his day was radically new. No-one could have predicted that Parmenides thoughts on Being would end up (via Plato) with Christianity and, later with Nietzsche and the Will to Power and similarly no-one can predict what Heidegger's new beginning (if it is taken up) will produce. Indeed where Heidegger appears to be closed, ie when he joined the Nazi Party, he's actually still open since right from the start he said that if Naziism didn't have something concealed in it, if it was just what it appeared to be, then it would be worthless. The rectoral address is a call for freedom of the University to engage in an open search for 'knowledge' - admittedly in H's particular, even peculiar, understanding of that term. Heidegger's thought unquestionably will have political consequences (if it is taken up) and maybe Dugin can be taken as a first attempt at something but it's very crude (almost as crude as Evola's attempt to extract a political programme out of Guenon). On which subject, has anyone thought of comparing Heidegger's unfortunate brush with actual everyday politics and Plato's involvement with the Tyrant of Syracuse?
It is a real problem to try and keep everything in a silo. Politics and philosophy are indivisible.
I always notice the openness to question and appreciate its philosophical import that u bring to the channel
That said I recall that Heidegger refers to Being as the pole of the polis and would invite u to address that in ur interpretation and presentation of thinkers if that interests u