/lit/ - Literature

>>11955371
YH's favorite guys are Stiegler and Simondon, and for them you'd want some phenomenology. he's also clearly put in some time reading Mou Zongsan and other Chinese heavyweights.

there's no introduction to YH that i know of, but perhaps just getting to know the Man from Messkirch is your best bet. if you like Big Picture technological thinking he shouldn't disappoint you. he swung for the fences (those that were left standing, at any rate, after Nietzsche went through them like Dragon Ball Z). track down some introductory guides to Heidegger, maybe. in terms of questions about philosophy and technology in the 20C (and maybe the 21C too), Heidegger is like Elvis. everybody connects to him at some point.

>>11033931
it means that the question of whether or not there is Something rather than Nothing is basically rooted in human thinking. it's not that there is as actually a choice between there being Nothing or there being Something. what's there is is Being but you are, being the finite and anxious human being that you are, probably not experiencing all that the verb 'to be' actually means.

that's why the book is called Being and Time. time itself is a function and product of human thinking, but not simply any kind of thinking. there is ontic thinking, which is dealing with surface phenomena, and there is ontological thinking, which is thinking the really deep and fundamental questions about the relationship of Dasein - that's you, in heidegger's own unique language, 'being there' - to time, the world, mortality, technology, and all of it.

he's top-tier fun. not everyone likes him, it's true. but i do. people are pretty sharply divided on him, and his relationship to the nazis does not exactly help his reputation as an all-time all-time great philosopher. nietzsche and heidegger are basically why we have the continental-analytic split today, which sucks. but he definitely has a thoughtfully worked-out response to OP's question.

so in brief, the answer to the question of Something/Nothing comes down to what it is that you mean by there being Something/Nothing in the first place, which is grounded in your mortality and finitude as a living subject and experiencing of time, angst, much else.