Great short unfolding! Thanks again.

I always loved Heidegger’s discussions with Eastern thinkers and his idea that there are many “houses of being.” Personally, my philosophical thinking was profoundly shaped by Sign Language, which I took for years. I always felt that there was something about Sign Language that presented being “in a new way,” where “idea” and “image” were uniquely blended. Creative Writing has always been another “house of being” for me, where one must learn to “show instead of tell,” which led to me to wonder about “showing philosophy” versus just “telling it.” Indeed, hopefully the Pluralistic world today will prove ready to house “many houses of being,” with no one trying to “colonize” the others—that would be wonderful.

Lovely how Heidegger wasn't Eurocentric and had a wider view and understanding of the world. Mindful of other cultures as "the houses of being in different languages"...Truly unique human being.

The way your work has been evolving around Heidegger's legacy is absolutely unique and special!
Lucky ones, those that can enroll on your course.
=)

Thank you for this video Johannes. Your knowledge and master course on Heidegger is phenomenal 🌟

This was really interesting! Thank you again Johannes.

Bloody Brilliant, Lad!

Just found this channel. Good stuff!

Engaging material - thank you

For the sake of Japanese and American humor...a Japanese national friend told me, Dogen Zenji would have been better off if he had owned an I phone. ie he would have never had to make his trip to China. Anyway, thanks for this video!

9:03 I wonder if this "possibility" that we have to make, this possibility thats necessary, has a similar form that heideggers choice to choose oneself does
Where everywhere we see that the demand to choose who we are is forced on us, making it paradoxically not a choice as there is no option to choose, but from the very way our being is it is free, and thus a choice to choose who we are

Hello Johannes,

Thank you very much. I watch with great interest and engagement this video of yours. I've one question:

Much of what Heidegger is saying strikes me as an attempt to unite the world, in particular, unite the East and the West which for the longest time has been separated by a dichotomy only made worse by the euro-centrism of things and accompanying colonialism. He argues for this by creating a dialogue with the Japanese philosopher, Kuki(?) and questions Kuki's attempts to analyse Japanese aesthetics using European (or Western categories). He ends by saying that we should create an economy of beings or economy of houses of being where manifolds (differences) can appear without being obliterated or subsumed.
- I'm not quite sure I understand Heidegger's strategy here as it sounds rather metaphorical. Is he (or would he) call for a universal language like Esperanto? OR is he saying that we ought to think in one language (like German) through which all other languages can flourish (German, in this case, is that wellspring you mentioned)? I doubt it's the former although I've heard somewhere that Heidegger deemed German to be the most suitable language for philosophy.

all thinking has the common root. only that our cultural traditions and our hegemonic ways of perverting things has skewed and skewered our common understanding

9:03 I wonder if this "possibility" that we have to make, this possibility thats necessary, has a similar form that heideggers choice to choose oneself does
Where everywhere we see that the demand to choose who we are is forced on us, making it paradoxically not a choice as there is no option to choose, but from the very way our being is it is free, and thus a choice to choose who we are