In Ep 23, we start reading Section 19, entitled “Philosophy (On the question: who are we?). Here, Heidegger asserts that “philosophy is meditation on beyng, which is necessarily meditation on one’s self.” But the question – “who are we?” – carries a host of complications, obfuscations, and assumptions that prevent us from answering it in…

In this episode we read Section 18 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event), which is titled “The Powerlessness of Thinking.” The obverse of this, however, is what we gather from the section, i.e. the power of essential thinking. Essential thinking is separate from machination and lived experience, takes place in the solitude of the…

We read Section 17 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Titled “The Necessity of Philosophy,” this section centers on how philosophy is grounded in “the plight.” Coming from the German word “Not,” which means need, predicament, worry, hardship, suffering, necessity, and more, the term is here translated as “the plight,” which is what “propels…

In this episode we read Section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss how philosophy is useless yet sovereign knowledge, the need for meditation to de-fix from the “here and now,” how meditation thereby “necessarily becomes the question of the truth of the history of philosophy,” and ultimately how the primary question…

In this episode we read section 15 and parts of section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss what the “philosophy of a people” is, how that philosophy must belong to “its first, essential beginning” so as to keep the people from being “led into a distorted essence by an alleged people,”…

In Ep 18 we finish Section 14 and its emphasis on the difference between philosophy and worldview, which, as Heidegger says, are so opposite no image can even capture their difference for that image would bring them closer than they truly are. This distinction between philosophy and worldview, we discover, is echoed in the distinctions…

In Ep 17 we discuss restraint as “an openness for the reticent nearness of the essential occurrence of beyng” and “the most remote trembling of appropriative intimations out of the remoteness of the undecidable.” We also look at the way in which words failing us is our arrival at the first leap, the juxtaposition of…

In Ep 16 we read section 13 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss restraint as the basic disposition of Dasein, look at how restraint gives way to the silence and stillness that allows the appropriation by beyng (giving us access to the dominion of the last gods where being is opened and…

In Ep 15 we focus on story vs. non-story. How do you keep a child away from story? How do you teach them non-story? We also look at Heidegger’s redefinition of history as appropriation of Dasein by Beyng, how “history” and “story” are the same word in German (Geschichte), and several ways you can free…

In Ep 14 we go over some of the book’s core terms (Dasein, Grounding, Beyng, History), after which we discuss the distortions of Shanahan’s views on IVF as an example of historiology, Truth U vs SJU as defined by Haidt as an example of our critique of liberalism’s trend toward historiology, and the question of…