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Persona #137

Martin Heidegger

1889–1976
German philosopher; phenomenologist of Being; Nazi party member 1933–1945

Sein und Zeit — the question of Being recovered through the existential analysis of Dasein

Attribute Fingerprint

Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.

Attribute Martin Heidegger
Time · Extent Finite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Non-Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Relational
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Finite
Matter · Ontological Status Emergent
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Partial
Observer · Physicality Both
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Experience
Observer · Theological Method Mystical
Energy · Extent Finite
Energy · Ontological Status Emergent
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Relational
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Martin Heidegger

Time is the horizon of Being. Dasein is essentially temporal: being-toward-death gives time its finitude and authenticity.

Space

Martin Heidegger

Dasein is being-in-the-world; space is relational, derivative of the structures of involvement and equipmentality.

Matter

Martin Heidegger

The ready-to-hand (Zuhandenheit) and present-at-hand (Vorhandenheit) are derivative modes; matter is emergent within the existential analytic.

Observer

Martin Heidegger

Dasein is the entity for whom Being is at issue. Active engagement (Sorge — care). Cosmic-ordering: the clearing of Being (Lichtung) is the metaphysical happening.

Energy

Martin Heidegger

Energy is not thematized directly, but the critique of technology's "standing reserve" treats energy as bringing-forth that has been reduced to calculation.

Information

Martin Heidegger

Being is disclosed (alētheia — unconcealment). Personal information ends with death, which is one's ownmost possibility.

Internal Tensions

Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.

Martin Heidegger

Heidegger's Nazi affiliation and the Black Notebooks' antisemitism are not separable from his philosophical project: his diagnosis of "rootlessness" and the destiny of the German people in Being and Time, and the later denunciations of "world Judaism" in the Notebooks, are continuous with his ontology. Reading Heidegger requires confronting whether the philosophy survives the politics, and how much of the philosophy was conditioned by it.