/lit/ - Literature

An analogy may be, Heidegger was not a Christian but theologians and Christians interested in Western philosophy can learn much from him and from existentialist philosophy and phenomenology in general. It’s about the transformation and deepening of you, the reader and student, instead of a mere “agreement” or “disagreement” with. Gurdjieff’s works and thought sincerely gave me a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Gospels and New Testament, for instance.

Another related example more recently is the Roman Catholic Trappist monk Thomas Merton and his Centering Prayer, who studied and learned much from wisdom of Eastern traditions and engaged in dialogue with many from their traditions while still being a devoted Trappist. This is not the mindset of argument or mere eclectic brainy-comparison, but inclusive respect for other traditions and seeing what in them is genuinely there of wisdom which can be applied to yourself and your own living situation right there, regardless of time and place.

Instead of viewing “enlightenment” as just something exotic that happens on Himalayan mountain-tops, you view it as representing a latent potential for experiencing or a potential state of mind within yourself which can brought to your day-to-day life. Regardless of from whom or where or what you learned it from, you are authentically grateful for and appreciative of it once you experience the core insights. “I can remember myself,” “I can permeate my life and thoughts with remembrance of and devotion to God,” “I can struggle against negative emotions and bad habits.” Etc.

ever thought about how correspondence truth is a joke poisining our existence, how the understanding of time as presence is the vulgar formalisation of a common prejudice and how german idealism has objectified the world to such an extent that the suggestion of return to ecsatic temporality is regarded as an offense by most modern "intellectuals"?

>>18979559
Late Heidegger.

How did Husserl react to Being and Time?

>>17917082
>objectifies the world and removes it from life.
Someone would like a word with you.
Honestly though, that sounds like something some dipshit in an English department would say when they're trying to play continental philosopher.

>>16945394
kein Maß

>"God has always been with me"
Where does Heidegger say this? I've seen this quote attributed to him on here, but when I search, I just get a few links to warosu.

>>16383807
Alright, red pill me on Dugin. Is he just applying Heidegger to geopolitics, or what?

>just bee urself
Damn...

Life is defined only in terms of death

>>14869526
>The realm of modernity itself is what needs deconstructed
Deconstruction itself is of modernity, even if it is 'post'-modern. No, all of modernity needs to be rejected entirely, every aspect, and in its place a new mode of authenticity must be found stemming from Dasein. A new confidence to build upon the traditionalist structure that modernity crushed, while at the same time looking forward into the future. A reigniting of creative vitality and a reassertion of the solar.

>>6846265
Sum 1 say time?