Zach's Strange Corner of Thought
You Made A Wrong Turn Awhile Back!
Citations:
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought, New York, 2008. Buy here!
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This video is about what happens when you’re all up in your feelz!
Content Warning: Depression, fear, anger, anxiety, self-harm, suicide.
These emotions or moods specifically alter our ways of interpreting the world around us. Moods attune humans to their worlds (which they are inherently a part of). Through being attuned, we are disposed to this or that way of encountering entities within-the-world. Dispositions are the state-in-which-one-is-found. Utilizing the philosophy of German Philosopher Martin Heidegger, I reflect on my own experiences—especially in the past year—of being attuned in very extreme and often destructive ways. This description of moods is existential, not categorical. Humans as both living beings, and reflective or beings-of-contemplation, are qualitatively different types of beings than inorganic entities, specifically a human’s unique temporality and interpretative possibilities. As such, human emotions must properly be viewed existentially, with these characteristics in mind.
Citations:
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought, New York, 2008. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Buy here!
Vandergriendt, Carly. “What’s the Difference between a Panic Attack and an Anxiety Attack?” Healthline, Healthline Media, 19 Oct. 2021.
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What is Identity? What does it mean to identify with something or to be identified? We go on a strange journey through the simplest of statements A=A, in search of answers to these questions.
Citations:
Ferreira, Pete, and Richard Polt. “The Richard Polt Ereignis Interview.” Ereignis, 12 Dec. 2005.
Laozi. Tao: A New Way of Thinking: A Translation of the Tao tê Ching with an Introduction and Commentaries, translated by Chung-Yuan Chang, Singing Dragon, London, 2014. Buy here.
Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought, New York, 2008. Buy Here.
Heidegger, Martin. Identity and Difference. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008. Buy Here.
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Both philosophers Martin Heidegger and Rudolph Carnap wanted to see metaphysics destroyed, but they had very different ways of going about this. In 1929, Heidegger gave a speech entitled “What is Metaphysics?” Three years later, Carnap wrote an essay called “The Elimination of Metaphysics Through the Logical Analysis of Language” attacking Heidegger’s speech as meaningless mumbo-jumbo. Heidegger never responded, but we can imagine what might of happened if they swung philosophical swords against each other.
