2024-10-31
31 分钟Hello, everyone.
I'm Steven West.
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So please listen to at least last episode before this one.
But a couple episodes ago, I brought up High Digger in relation to Nietzsche.
And I said that a classic High Digger style question that really shows the differences between him and Nietzsche is
that he asks,
is it possible to think without the will?
Meaning, is it a part of our thinking?
To not only be able to have freedom of the will, to be able to will yourself on the situations when you choose to.
But beyond freedom of the will, is there also a freedom from the will that's an important part of our thinking as well?
Now, what this question refers to is High Digger's later work, after being in time, after Dasein,
after showing the limitations of only framing things in terms of subjects and objects, willing ourselves onto reality.
After that, he moves on to a very interesting stage of his philosophy,
where the main thing that he wants to explore in his later work is what he calls, releasement, or letting be.
Let's talk more about what that might look like.
See,
if the world around us to High Digger is made up of a bunch of people that have a technological inframing to everything,
where everything and every one is just an object that we need to will ourselves onto.