Philosophize This! Episode #100 ... Heidegger pt. 1 - Phenomenology and Dasein
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Apr 14, 2017 AI Snips
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Diogenes' Chicken
- Plato and other philosophers attempted to define a human.
- Diogenes challenged their definition of "featherless biped" with a plucked chicken.
Ontology's Focus
- Ontology studies the nature of being, existence, and the criteria we use to define them.
- It explores questions like what constitutes existence and the nature of existence itself.
Phenomenology's Aim
- Husserl's phenomenology emphasizes examining the structure of human thought.
- It aims to understand how our subjective experience shapes our perception of reality.