/lit/ - Literature

no. its either you understand the history of art or you are a knuckle dragging pol tard who thinks all art should be realistic land scape paintings forever

Basically he’s most well known for his meta-reinterpretation of the western philosophical tradition, turned everything on its head. Heidegger was mostly concerned with ONTOLOGY, a field of philosophy concerned with the most essential aspects of human perception/consciousness for instance our tendency to create ABSTRACTIONS which are basically mental categorizations and divisions HUMANS engage in in order to make reality comprehensible (at least according to most philosophers on the subject it varies between thinkers)

According to Heidegger there are two types of thinking that humans engage in: calculative thinking and meditative thinking. Calculative thinking is the type of thinking we engage in when we want to imbue our conscious energy into the things around us, it’s entirely concerned with DOING as opposed to CONTEMPLATING. Like thinking of building a barn is CALCULATIVE thinking. Meditative thinking, according to Heidegger, is a core part of BEING that is entirely unique to humans. It’s when we simply let our mind reflect, contemplate, ponder about how and who we are, what we are feeling, etc., Heidegger saw meditative thinking as the most natural or fundamentally human-oriented way of thinking as opposed to calculative thinking

meditative thinking forms an aspect of what Heidegger called dasein or “being-in-the-world”, however there are other aspects that constitute dasein for instance the concept of THROWNNESS, which is another quality unique to humans that differentiate us from animals; humans are THROWN into this world and as we grow older we make the phenomena surrounding us comprehensible through abstraction and meditative thinking. Again, dasein/being-in-the-world are the ontological phenomena that constitutes the unique human experience