Martin Heidegger | “What Is Metaphysics?” | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

In this episode, Dr. Hicks gives a close reading of Martin Heidegger's 1929 lecture "What is Metaphysics?"

Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.

Timestamps:
00:44 The text
02:40 What is metaphysics?
03:52 Science may be dismissive of the inquiry
05:00 Science has atrophied
06:26 Science is not exceptional
07:22 Dasein
09:07 What about this nothing that is rejected by science?
10:07 What is the nothing?
11:30 The source of the rejection of nothing is logic
12:11 Are we allowed to tamper with logic?
13:35 Nothing, not and negation
14:10 Does the ostensible absurdity of the question rest solely on a blind conceit?
15:20 What do we mean by the nothing?
16:50 We need to find another way to encounter nothing
17:14 Boredom
18:25 Profound boredom is a more generalized boredom
19:35 Feelings
20:00 Feeling is more fundamental than thinking or willing
21:21 Anxiety
22:50 Anxiety is a more generalized state
25:54 We have made metaphysical progress
26:45 In anxiety, beings as a whole become superfluous
28:08 The action of the nothing that oppresses Dasein in anxiety is the essence of nihilation
28:41 The nothing itself nihilates
29:33 We find who we are
32:08 A broader historical context
36:00 Ex nihilo nihil est...


Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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