In my college days I took a whole course on Heidegger.
I dutifully read his books, took notes, and listened carefully in class. The professor had a German accent that made his English impossible to understand.
I never understand what the h__ Heidegger was talking about—if any Freepers have figured it out speak up!
P.S Fortunately none of the other students did either so I got a gentlemen’s B.
I very much enjoy the later work of Heidegger. If any thing I do can be called “thinking,” then my thinking has been greatly influenced by him.
I fear that Pastor Musser got in over his head here. To write an essay with so much talk of Heidegger and no mention of ‘phenomenology,’ ‘personalism,’ or the thought of Pope St. John Paul II is really to track only one strand of a complicated conversation.
Exactly!
“I never understand what the h__ Heidegger was talking about—if any Freepers have figured it out speak up!”
I think you understood it perfectly without realizing it... much of modern philosophy amounts to little more than verbal gibberish. To demonstrate this some wiseguy hired an actor to present a fake paper at a conference and no one caught on.