Read Heidegger's "Early Greek Thinking - the Dawn of Western Philosophy""

For our next session we will read the final section of a short work of Heidegger on the pre-Socratics "Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy", translated by David Krell and Frank Capuzzi. These essays were originally written between 1943 and 1954; the first essay on Anaximander was published in German in 1950 as part of the collection "Holzwege", and the rest first appeared in "Vortage und Ausfsatze" in 1954. Our English translation was published in 1984 by Harper and Row.

The subject is the birth of western philosophy in the pre-Socratics, treated via translation and interpretation of 4 short fragments, the first from Anaximander, the 2nd and 4th from Heraclitus, and the 3rd from Parmenides.

We are deliberately slowing down to give more time to these fragments and Heidegger's interpretations of them. For our next we will just read the fourth section, on the Aletheia (truth) fragment of Heraclitus. This covers pages 102 to 123 in our text. We will also wrap up the work with overall assessments of Heidegger's thoughts on the pre-Socratics.

An Amazon link to our main text (EGT) in question can be found here -

https://www.amazon.com/Early-Greek-Thinking-English-German/dp/0060638427

While familiarity with any of our past sessions on Heidegger would be helpful, there is no hard requirement to join in and read this work with us.

Thus newcomers are entirely welcome; bring your questions.

With apologies to those who have already scheduled, I need to move this meeting 1 week later to Sunday April 16th to accommodate multiple requests from people who could not make the Easter Sunday time that I first scheduled. I hope everyone can make the new time, and look forward to seeing you there.