Hey, this is Mark from the Partialies Emmon Life.

What you're about to hear is 15 minutes near the beginning of a 2.5 hour recording that

Seth Paschinen and I did of a close reading of Martin Heidegger's essay on the Essence

of Truth from 1943.

You can get the full recording at parsleyexaminedlife.com slash store from the iTunes store or become

a PEL citizen and you get this and all of our bonus audio.

We decided to do this reading because of the upcoming episode on Hans Georg Gautamer.

Gautamer is very influenced by Heidegger and one of his starting points is Heidegger's

Theory of Truth, which involves things disclosing themselves as they are, whatever that means.

So to try and figure that out, Seth and I went line by line through the first half of this

short essay and I think even at this preview chunk, you get some idea where Heidegger's

coming from.

The clip you're going to hear here starts just a couple pages into the essay where he's

trying to explain what the question itself, what is truth, means.

We call for the goal which should be positive for man in and for his history.

We want the actual truth.

Well, then truth.

But in calling for the actual truth, we must already know what truth as such means.

Or do we know this only by feeling in a general way?

But is not such vague knowing and our indifference regarding it more desolate than sheer ignorance

of the Essence of Truth?

So I think the subtext here is that if you ask the question, what is truth when you're

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