Leaping Cholla Podcast

Continuing through section 110, we read of the history of idealism coming down from Plato, which Heidegger claims is in fact a history of realism in which the subject is transcendent and the truth of being is unquestioned. From here we discuss some of the symptoms and manifestations of the liberal addiction to transcendence in...

In the section that begins “Hegel’s concept of the idea,” we read about the various determinations of the history of the idea that are encapsulated in Hegel’s absolute self-knowing spirit and told that all post-Hegelian philosophies are mere submissive iterations of this core concept. We then discuss how this idea of the idea plays into...

In subsections 11-14 of section 110 we read about Platonism having been transformed from “idealism” to “realism” via the res becoming essentia. This manifests in the I, via cogito ergo sum, being mathetically linked to thinking, as well as the perceptum being taken for existence. From here we spin off to discuss the identitarian and...

Continuing thru section 110, we read of a set of prescriptive relations that the the liberal worldview perpetuates through its valuation-centered reach beyond being: the relation of form to soul, essence to seeing, community to discourse, and good to love. We also analyze how the subject/object dichotomy and the higher valuation of the subject inherent...

In section 110, subsection 5, we paddle our way through some ancient Greek to discover Heidegger reverse engineering the movement of the liberal mind beyond beingness in search of being’s fulfillment in value, happiness, ideals, meaning, and more. All of this means the guiding question of what beings are is unoriginally addressed. What post-liberalism might...

In sections 108, 109, and part of 110, we read about the basic metaphysical interpretations of space and time, the idea or Platonic form as the look of something, and how the individual and the changeable become non-being in the realm of objective constant presence. We then discuss various pivot points from liberalism to post-liberalism...

In sections 106 and 107 we read of Heidegger’s insistence on the need for a fundamental ontology that will address the basic questions of being’s essential occurrence and the truth of being. We also read of the difference between, and the collusion of, metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis. We spin off from these discussions to...

In sections 103 -105 we read a taxonomy of the epistemological fundaments of German Idealism, which spawned the Marxism and Post-Structuralism that overtook American and European universities and cultures beginning in the 1960’s and up to today. As the self is elevated into representational certainty, external enforcement of its formula begins. This can be seen...

Completing our reading of section 102, we follow Heidegger through a discussion of how philosophy as science bolsters the position of thought as guideline which, like the absolute self-knowledge of the I, determines the interpretation of beingness as the self-present present. Following further discussions of Nietzsche’s “will to power” as truth deteriorated “into a necessar...

We start at section 101 of Contributions and read about the great simplicity of our initial look into the truth of beyng via an understanding of thought as anticipatory grasping. In the next section we read a beautiful historiography of the development from Plato’s “yoking of the soul and truth” to the I that thinks...

At section 100 and onward, we look at how “beingness was grasped as constant presence from ancient times.” This leads to a discussion of the entire nexus of perception and experience as constructed by constancy, presence, time, projection, and the collusion of beingness and being that gives rise to the conundrum of needing essences to...

Diving into Section 98, we read that beingness projects itself upon constant presence and that “time essentially occurs in the essence of truth for beingness.” From this we gain a sense of “temporalizing” as critical to being. After a look at Heidegger’s take on the perennial distinction between being and becoming, among other things, This...

Starting at section 96, we read about ousia, techne, and physis, or being, craft, and nature. How these three forces play out in the history of philosophy is confronted in the context of understanding time as integral to being and the templates and conflations of form and matter. We then look into two approaches to...

Starting at section 92, we read about how the other beginning must not be “contra” the first beginning, but must establish something completely different. This is achieved by confronting the great philosophers in terms of the guiding question, or what is being, and by understanding “thinking” as a cognate of “time” as an active verb....

We conclude section 91 with meditations on thought as anticipatory grasping, the importance of the question of truth, and beyng as the intrinsically turning event. We then discuss the cognitive chain of “thoughts to words to actions” in the light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination not only as liberalism’s justification for violence as a cure to...

Working our way through section 91, we read of how thinking has become the search for certainty (not truth) and thus beingness has become objectivity. This is all the result of ratio, or reason, stepping into the service of fides, or faith, in the middle ages and the resulting “secular Christianity” of contemporary liberalism. Looking...

We read about how the first beginning experiences the truth of beings while the other beginning experiences the truth of beyng, and we discuss the differences. Heidegger counsels not to gauge or interpret the primordiality of beginnings according to their starting point or advancements and highlights the guideline and anticipatory grasp of thought as instrumental...

In section 90, we read about negation, and how it is too frequently taken to mean sheer rejection, dismissal, disparagement, or disintegration. In short, negation is logically neutered into the “not.” Heidegger urges us to think of negation as a leaping away into the Da (or there) of Dasein, and thus to be a kind...

In sections 87-89 we read of establishing a history of metaphysics that enables the realization that “refusal pertains intrinsically to the essence of beyng,” of taking thinking back into the grounding of Dasein, and of the “long periods of solitudes and the stillest raptures at the fireside of beyng” that the transitional ones must undertake....

In sections 85 and 86 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read of the four “extensions” of metaphysics that lead to our ingrained thinking about being and beyng. Primary among these is the compulsion to make beingness present and relate to it as presence, which culminates in a host of symptoms and effects....

Reading thru the middle of section 85 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we wade through meditations on the overcoming of metaphysics, or “the knowledge of the ‘being’ of beings.” This leads to a variety of musings on how liberalism is the real world manifestation of the metaphysical heritage, so the process of ending...

We begin a new super section of the book, 3: The Interplay, and read about the forms of historical meditation, the passing of the ball from the first to the other beginning, and logic as a vestige of the powerlessness of thinking. This gives rise to discussions on how to free thought of logic, or...

In the final passages of section 80, Heidegger asks, “what is ‘more sure’: the immediate, naive description or the exact experiment?,” and then answers, “the former, because there theory is presupposed ‘less’.” Discussing this startling proposition, we conclude super section 2, The Resonating. Along the way we discuss “teaching to the test,” liberal education’s failure...

In sections 78 and 79 we read of the transformation of experience into a mathematico-rational measuring experiment opposed to “arbitrary, merely curiosity-motivated exploration of an indeterminately represented domain.” We spin off from these speculations to look at how the liberal/non-liberal dichotomy involves different perspectives on freedom of speech and law and order on a gradient...

In sections 77 and 78 we read of the ways in which experience and experiment inter-relate on a spectrum via anticipatory grasping, a desire for an exposition of regulatory, testing, inputting, placing objects in temptation, and the establishment of an essential objective domain accessible only through quantitative rules. We then discuss how anxiety plays into...