Philosophical Diagram #1: Building Dwelling Thinking

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My design methodology makes qualitative decisions to reduce a complicated idea to a solid and logical state. It gives the best answer it can in as simple and engaging way as possible.

Can I do the same with the vaguest philosophical theories?

Let’s give it a try.…

This [figure] is the first attempt, in regards to Martin Heidegger (arguably the most famous and incoherent of the bunch), in his essay, one of my favorites, called “Building Dwelling Thinking”.

In it, Heidegger approaches the conflict that arose particularly clearly in his time: The magic somethingness of dwelling was being destroyed by modernist and brutalist architecture. He attempts to point at this essential something of acting and being in the world (“Dwelling”). This dwelling relies on “building”, which is really dwelling. But building is not dwelling when it does not consider the “Fourfold” (Earth, Sky, Mortal and Divinities). To build within the fourfold, to hold reverence toward all four, is to successfully participate in the space with the (means/end) of dwelling. …

This diagram isn’t meant to answer anything, as Heidegger’s philosophy usually complicated things. But does it make any sense?

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Archambault, Archie

Date

2016

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