The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Sarah Bakewell on Heidegger's 'Being-towards-Death', Particularity, and Germanocentrism
"But Heidegger disliked the notion of universal truths or universal humanity, which he considered a fantasy. For him, Dasein is not defined by shared faculties of reason and understanding, as the Enlightenment philosophers thought. Still less is it defined by any kind of transcendent eternal soul, as in religious tradition. We do not exist on a higher, eternal plane at all. Dasein's Being is local: it has a historical situation, and is constituted in time and place." At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (New York: Other Press, 2016), p. 87.
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