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Martin Heidegger, Plato's Doctrine of Truth | Four Dwelling Places in the Allegory | Core Concepts

Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

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This Core Concept video focuses on Martin Heidegger's essay "Plato's Doctrine of Truth" (found in the book, Pathmarks) and discusses the four "dwelling places" Heidegger identifies in the Allegory of the Cave - found in book 7 of Plato's Republic.

Each of the different dwelling places involves a different attitude towards truth or "unhiddness" (aletheia) in Heidegger's interpretation. The allegory charts the movement from one dwelling place to the next, and thereby from one conception of truth to another.

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12 Comments

@gpalmer456 8 years ago (edited)

Just wanted to take a minute to thank you for your content. I have found it a great help in my independent study. Keep up the great work.

@JimJWalker 8 years ago

I am reading "Being in Time", but while reading it I am writing a "learning journal" where I try to restate what I have learned in my own words. I have found this extremely useful. I hope this idea is useful in some way for others.

@wcropp1 8 years ago

Thanks again Dr. Sadler. Your videos are indispensable for us nerds who love studying philosophy in our free time! I’m sure you have a lot on your plate, but an interesting idea I had recently was a video(s) discussing the seemingly-influential thinkers and their works that have been lost over time? Maybe touch on what they may have contained in cases where we possess fragments or references. Obviously that would be a lot to cover, but a cursory overview of what little we know about the major ones would be awesome. Maybe a series of short videos? They would obviously have to be largely speculative. Perhaps one day? Think about it!

@thenowchurch6419 8 years ago

Thanks again. Great job Dr Sadler.

For me the Cave allegory is about waking up to the reality of being bred in a societal matrix of unquestioned conditioning and opinions and doing the work to be free.

The content here supports my thesis that both Hegel and Heidegger's thought have close parallels with the doctrines and practices of Hermetic Initiation of the Western Esoteric tradition such as Alchemy, Qabala and Rosicrucianism, all of which were influences on Freemasonry.

The common idea is rising to higher levels or degrees of understanding and vision, which corresponds roughly with the different "dwellings" and how this is a tedious and gradual process that must be nurtured and cultivated.

Keep the good work.

@RomanDobs 3 years ago

I was actually earning to watch this without know it existed I wasn’t aware Heidegger had any time or patience for Plato but I love Plato’s allegory of the cave it inspired my novel .

@oshinoedan5666 8 years ago

Love you Dr. Sandler <3 Your contributions are some of the most impotent of our time. Thank you!

@MrMarktrumble 8 years ago

What it is un-hidden(a-lethia) is the "whatness" of the thing (latin quiddity...the essence, the generic type, the species...). "Having one gaze fixed on the limit of things" Dwelling in the realm of ...essences? (ideos?)or concrete individual things? It is not the case that the token is the type, or type is solely any one of each tokens. . What is the German word for the open? Does this become a H technical term ( I think I have seen it before) . But since Aquinas, there has been a distinction between being (esse) and essence(ens) and no doubt H is aware of this. Very good lecture. I plan to purchase this work of H and read this essay.

@Retrogamer71 8 years ago

Hurrah for Rob.

@dimitryratulangieichwanb.e1156 5 years ago

Hi there Greg! Thank you for the video. I was wondering if you can help me with something. I am currently writing a thesis on the philosophy of home and I'd like to understand more about Heidegger's concept of dwelling. I've read his article (Building, Dwelling, Thinking), but I was wondering if you can reference me other concepts about dwelling that can help me with my thesis, particularly on how we can understand the concept of home.

Thanks again!

@vladimirbacha6205 8 years ago

Is there is anyone here who has watched all 384 of the core concept videos? If there is someone I want to ask him/her how much time it has taken them to watch them all?

@danskiver6819 8 years ago (edited)

I'm always amazed this allegory is not connected with language. Clearly we can see words are like shadows uttered by the politicians/shadow casters keeping the governed from seeing and experiencing freedom and the good.

@brianking8190 8 years ago

Great job, Dr. Sadler, of summarizing Heidegger!

As you mentioned, he kinda botched the translation and thus somehow misinterpreted the third and the fourth affectations of the soul. He φlunked out on that one.
I'm talking capital "Φ".

But that's okay...because he was a school administrator, and he became a Nazi...and because his mentor was brilliant, and Jewish, and was displaced from the very same institution wherein Heidegger himself had ascended to peerage...Heidegger cannot reach the fourth affectation with a mind like that. Surely, he never visited the third affectation - not even in his dreams.

***Heidegger's Whole Epistemology in 5 seconds: "German language is the medium by which we can assign new and original thoughts to Ancient Greek and Ancient Egyptian writers, silencing them by defaming their prose."

Jury: We, the members of this jury -- and notwithstanding the defendant's unsubstantiated claims of peerage -- do find the defendant GUILTY as to Count 1 of the indictment.***