I’ve got a lot of reading to do as I have no idea wtf you’re talking about
Time to study
(I reflect often that when I come across this kind of thing, it’s like an ascension in a sense, as people are operating at higher frequencies of wisdom)
Discussion
I asked GPT to get a background:
In Time and Being (or Zeit und Sein), Martin Heidegger introduces the concept of the "event" (Ereignis) as a central element in his later philosophy. The term Ereignis can be difficult to translate, often rendered as "event," but it carries a richer sense in Heidegger's thought, implying something more like "enowning" or "appropriating event."
In the context of Time and Being, Heidegger's "event" refers to the way in which Being itself unfolds or reveals itself to human beings. It signifies a dynamic process rather than a static thing, where Being (the fundamental nature of reality) "appropriates" or "enowns" entities (including human beings) into its unfolding. This "event" is the happening where time, Being, and human existence come together.
The key ideas of the event in Heidegger's thought are:
1. The Unfolding of Being: The event is the process through which Being reveals itself to us. It is not something that happens at a particular moment but is an ongoing happening that lets entities, including humans, "belong" to Being.
2. Interplay Between Time and Being: In Time and Being, Heidegger explores the intimate relationship between time and Being. The event is where time (understood not as linear clock time, but as a more primordial, existential temporality) and Being intersect. Time is the horizon within which Being reveals itself through the event.
3. Enowning or Appropriation: The term Ereignis also carries the sense of "appropriation," meaning that in the event, entities are drawn into their proper place or meaning within the unfolding of Being. Human beings, through their existence, are "appropriated" into this event of Being.
4. Beyond Metaphysical Thinking: The event concept reflects Heidegger's later move beyond traditional metaphysics, which focuses on beings (entities) in a fixed, static way. Instead, Heidegger wants to think about Being itself as an active, dynamic process.
In sum, Heidegger's event in Time and Being is a way to describe how Being, time, and existence are intertwined in a dynamic unfolding process, where human beings play a crucial role in the revelation of Being through their existence and experience of time.
Sounds very confusing to be honest.
I can confirm that ‘Ereignis’ is a beautiful word of my mother tongue. Sometimes also translated with ‘happening’ in English.
So cool how language does that. A word can be beautiful in one, but not in the translation
Often I find it’s because the meaning is actually a little different
Heidegger was a straight up Nazi. Now this is not some conspiracy theory you could easily translate Nazi fascism, communism, or the Roman Catholic Church into essentially materialism (satanism: yes the Lord of darkness is the Lord of the material realm whether you think that’s fantasy or not) Heidegger was a materialist. His gobbledygook is a lifeless world. Just like our natural science is the study of minerals and not life.
Human beings are time-binding beings, but what’s most important is the spiritual element I would be more interested in what Satre has to say than this turd. How fitting as they’re trying to usher in the trans humanism garbage let’s face it all these fandango terms like mRNA or DNA are nothing more than theories. It’s just a way of tricking us to continue eating their poison, breathing their poison and living this poisonous existence.
GM 👋
Thanks for adding that
Much appreciated
For God’s sake don’t start with Heidegger. If you haven’t built up the lexicon of the field of phenomenology you’ll just get terribly frustrated and throw the book directly out the window. And it has nothing to do with intelligence, it’s just really dense stuff.
Start with some intro to phenomenology, then pick a writer whose summarized viewpoint resonates most with you, and then start reading that person, slowly.
This is probably the best way to go about it, but some of us like to do
Things the hard way.
Just reading GPT's summary, I can tell it's super dense. I'll just let nostr:nprofile1qqstm84k2lp9knmvmf5gw88zvfvar7duvfpqfplryfystdn55ug2gksprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdaksz9thwden5te0wahhgtnwdaehgu3wwpshyareqyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2j8uly5 figure it out then explain some of those concepts in his next book, in a way that a dumb dumb like me can understand.
Thanks for the advice. Let me explore