Update: If you want to attend but currently cannot afford the 200 RMB, please send a direct message to us. You can apply for "free study" if you're serious about philosophy & learning about Heidegger.
新课程 什么时候开始？When: We are starting this Week! On Wednesday!
Every Wednesday for 4 Weeks: December 6th, Dec. 13th, Dec. 20th, and Dec. 27th, 晚上 7:00-09:00pm
谁？Who? Teacher: Dr. Karl Kraatz 副教授， 湖南师范大学
内容? What: 4 Lectures (8 Hours) + Selected Readings 海德格尔
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You get a Full Course on Heidegger's Concept of "Truth"
+ Discussion Group (英语，中文，德语, 都可以）
+ Reading Materials (PDFs)
+ Reading List (2ndary Literature)
+ Recordings (video+audio, do not share)
+ Early Access to the Martin Heidegger Academy
What is Truth?
A true proposition? "Beijing is the capitol of China" is true.
A truthful human being?
A real/true gold coin instead of a fake one?
Coherence between a set of propositions?
Correspondence between proposition and the thing in the real world?
Consensus of the majority?
Scientific truth? Objectivity?
Course-Description: Four Lectures for you to learn about Heidegger's understanding of truth: from propositional truth (-1916) to evidential truth (-1920), to transcendental truth (-1927), to being-historical truth (1930-1976). And: to learn about the problems and shortcomings of different theories of truth: focussing on the paradigmatic "correspondence theory of truth."
1.
... from understanding truth as an attribute of propositions in the
earliest works (informed by Neokantians like H. Rickert), (propositional truth) -until 1916
2. ... to an evidence-based understanding of truth (adapted from Husserl), (evidential truth) -until 1925
3. ... to a transcendental understanding of truth (following Kant) (transcendental truth) -until 1930
4. ... to his understanding of the Ereignis of truth in the 1930s and onwards (being-historical Truth). -till 1976.
The goal is to understand this transformation and the necessity that led Heidegger from one to the other. But not only because we want to know what Heidegger has to say. Rather, we assume that this can contribute to the eternal philosophical problem of truth and therefore can be valuable for everyone's lives. We are not only learning something about Heidegger but also about truth as such.
Note: There will be also a German course (every Thursday) with roughly the same content. Only German instead of English. Good for Language-Learners.
These lectures will be based on selected readings of essential texts from Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe:
Heidegger GA 1 (Diss./Habilitation), Heidegger GA 21 (Logik: Die Frage nach der Wahrheit), Heidegger GA 2 (Being and Time), Heidegger GA 9 (“The Essence of Truth”), Heidegger GA 73.1 (On Thinking the Ereignis)
Active Participation
(asking questions, answering questions, preparing for the courses,
contributing) is rewarded with free access to future courses. The goal
is to build a group of "experts" and friends that can help each other
and have meaningful conversations.
Requirements:
Can you speak and understand English? better than average understanding
might be required, because we will talk about philosophical problems.
Otherwise, do you need any preknowledge of Heidegger or Philosophy? Not
necessarily! This course is for philosophers and nonphilosophers! for
everyone who is interested to learn something about Heidegger+Truth.
You need to pay the attendance fee of 200 RMB in advance. You can pay via AliPay or WeChat.
The Teacher: Karl Kraatz (chinese Name: 康理) is an Associate Professor at Hunan Normal University with a background in Sinology and Philosophy. He graduated from Freie Universität Berlin and earned his PhD from Technische Universität Dresden. He worked as a Visiting Scholar at KU Leuven and as a Postdoc and Associate Researcher at Hunan University where he completed a national postdoc project on Heidegger and AI. His research interests include Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Transcendental Philosophy, and AI. He published several articles and two monographs on Heidegger’s Philosophy. See more: www.karl-kraatz.de (personal homepage).
If you want to join, add: Wolfgang0626 on WeChat.
You
will be added to a WeChat Group after paying the attendance fee
(200RMB). For 200 RMB you get access to all lectures (8 hours in total)
and to the reading materials. Recording and/or sharing content without
our permission is forbidden.
If you want to join, add: Wolfgang0626 on WeChat.
Consider joining, ask questions, ask your friends to join with you. You can use Chinese in the Chat, but the teacher is going to speak English, and the presentations will mostly be in English.
