2017-05-12
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So the last couple episodes have been setting the stage for this one.
Descartes, who's by no means the only guy responsible for this, but in the sense that he's the godfather of philosophy,
Prabha, in the sense that, you know, so many subsequent thinkers commented on his work and responses to his work.
In the sense,
Heidegger thinks
that he essentially just took a medieval dualistic way of looking at being through a little pizzazz on it,
added some sprinkles and called it Cartesian subjectivity.
In that sense, Descartes is sort of the poster boy for this subject-object way of looking at the world,
and all the assumptions about how to look at things in the world that come along with it.
He took things off the rails, Heidegger thinks.
And it eventually led to all kinds of different outcomes from thinking about ourselves as agents fundamentally separate from being,
from treating these entities within nature as merely resources at our disposal as human beings.
But one of the most important assumptions, an assumption that may not seem very sinister on the surface,
is the assumption that this realm that we all seemingly navigate is primarily just something to be known.
The world is something to be known.
Our job is to look at the world, examine it, study it, and arrive at knowledge about it.