In-der-Blog-sein

Brad's World, is up for some fan-blogging, with yesterday's post: Heidegger is the MAN! [das Man?].

You're probably wondering about the title of this post. And you're probably wondering who this guy named Heidegger is. Well, I'll tell you. Heidegger is a German philosopher who is probably one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. He makes Einstein look like a mentally challenged school boy. Anyway, his ideas about metaphysics is pure genius! If anyone wants to get a taste of Heidegger's philosophy, go to the library and pick up his book called 'Introduction to Metaphysics.' He explains things in very easy-to-understand way, but still gets to the meat of his philosophy.

I think one of the best things Heidegger wrote was the common misconception of philosophy as being something only useful to professors and academics. For example, he says one of the biggest mistakes people make is trying to give philosophy an everyday usefullness that a hammer (for example) may have. But, the problem is that philosophy isn't something that can be contained in a temporal manner.

Something only an Einstein could understand, that manner of time's that contains (spatial metaphor) things, that are not philosophy. Or an artist, as Alan Moore capably demonstrates in The Map Drawn on Vapour:

These are the towns of light, built from remembered brick,
conjectured beam, that stand in Hilbert Space,
a plane of concept and idea where thought is form.

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