Episode #215 ... How Mysticism is missing from our modern lives. (Critchley, Heidegger)

hello everyone I'm Steven West this is philosophies this thank you to everyone who supports the podcast on patreon patreon.com philosophies this so please listen to at least last episode before this one but a couple episodes ago I brought up high Digger in relation to n and I said that a classic High Digger style question that really shows the differences between him and N 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 onto situ 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 hi Digger's later work after being in time after doine 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 INF framing to everything where everything and everyone is just an object that we need to will ourselves on to Let's structure things let's manipulate them optimize them and if by doing that it leads to a world where we're constantly seeing everything in terms of how to manipulate people to produce the most efficient outcome then what would happen if someone decided there was more to life than doing that all the time what if somebody didn't buy the whole sales pitch that you're aad bad person if you aren't constantly trying to educate yourself about the problems of 7 and A2 billion people what if there's more to what we are than constantly trying to save the world all the time through rational utilitarianism what if somebody instead decided to focus on trying to understand the nature of their own being better by putting in the work to maybe try to uncover a far more meaningful richer Fuller experience of what it is to even exist well ...