Hello! I have not started reading Being and Time, but only a "guide", so to speak (Heidegger's Being and Time: A Reading for Readers). This is because I am a mathematician who is not too familiar with philosophical language, and my understanding that Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the more difficult texts prevents me from diving in all at once - I'd rather dip my toes first. I preface this because I'll need something like an ELI18 explanation to my questions. The questions:
- It is said that the notion of Being is something that is self-evident, but that it has not been defined. I want to know why, or what aspect of, Being is "self-evident". Moreover, this notion of self-evidence implies a consistent interpretation of being (i.e. its mysterious definition, if one exists, is consistent among any human). However, I'm still at a loss on grasping what Being is. I suppose this is the goal of Heidegger's project... Perhaps some historical context will reveal this self-evidence and consistency?
- I would like to know what Heidegger means by temporality. From my understanding, it is not time itself, or some measurement of the 'space' between past and future or past and now, but something else that is intrinsic in Being.
- This is more to the side of the main work, but is most likely a prerequisite. I would like to know what a phenomenon is in phenomenology.
- From my understanding, philosophers have in the past (or at least pre-Heidegger) have made the assumption that humans are some kind of outside observer to the world we live in, which is full of objects and other entities separate from us, in some way, that we can observe and reason about. And what Heidegger (or someone before him?) posits is that humans and the "external world" are actually one in the same, so to speak. Is this a correct way of conceptualizing his ideas?
Thank you for your patience and your time to answer :-) Can't wait to keep reading and understanding.
Edit: Also is Heidegger investigating the history of language itself (e.g. etymology etc) to derive some aspects of the meaning of Being? If so, I have splitting thoughts on this: For one, language seems like an approximation to "reality", whatever that means. Therefore using it as a source of investigating something outside of it would not be the way to go (on the other hand, this approach may be inescapable since after all language is the only way to communicate and express any ideas at all, especially through a
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Pritchard's ticking clock
Otto has a revelation on his dark path. Not the thing I would have wrote.
Mary having some hope at the end of Otto's path.
Duval having to answer to the boss.
And Emma in the background
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Or would that be too forward thinking?
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.
And boy are my arms legs.
I won't be doing that today!
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
[Removed]
There hasn't been a post all year!
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
And then shook his arm really fast.
(True story, please groan with me.)
You take away their little brooms
It was about a weak back.
