PHIL-403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Martin Heidegger
4 Oct 2017
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We are not discovering most things in and of themselves, we draw new truths and. Important that the first circle is the i; the self; we are the horizon of meaning, the centre. How we give meaning to something that is truth matters: ex there were truths of the past, such as ideas about the body; when they are found false under current theory doesn"t make them false in the past (?). It is transactional: we in part construct the truth, as well as discover it (ex hydrogen weighs x, hydrogen can be chemically manipulated both truths but of different kinds) Each new possibility however brings with it difficulties circle. Everything beyond that is something we project onto, i. e. something we give meaning. Similarly, m. heidegger examines descartes thought, to say descartes was wrong is like saying the mountains are wrong: the way history unfolded, descartes inherited terms upon which he sees the world.
