Dear Reader - have you ever wondered about the primordial ontological significance of Dasein's ownmost authentic being-having-fallen-into-the-world as triply ecstatic, temporally-attenuated concern, but felt that you didn't have the time to spend trying to understand what influential thinkers have suggested as to this fundamentally important topic?
(Or, like myself, have you, perhaps, spent a great deal of time trying to so understand something just like that with little more than angst, nausea and despair to show for it?)
Well, over at the Guardian's "How to Believe" feature (where many others similarly address many other topics, as well), philosopher Simon Critchley condenses Martin Heidegger's foundational project on that topic, Being & Time, into an excellent eight-part exposition on that work, part one of which is here (and check the sidebar there for links to the sequence).
If, as Critchley encapsulates Heidegger's thesis, "being is time," and we uncritically accept the common axiom that "time is money," then, by dint of the transitive property of equality, are we forced to agree with the actuaries', capitalists' and American Antinomian Dominionists' (inter alia) assertion that "being is money"? (Egad, I hope not!)
But don't let Critchley or myself keep you from undertaking to read the tome itself, which is worth it just for the translators' and editors' painstaking explanations and examinations of the philosopher's puns, coinages and neologisms, if not its author's (admittedly, not widely noted) demolition of the tradition of philosophy up to that point.
And, . . . umm . . . one, more concerned with "living well" than the primordial ontological significance of Dasein's ownmost authentic being-having-fallen-into-the-world as triply ecstatic, temporally-attenuated concern, might also (or instead) dig to read about Christopher Phillips, who is out philosophizin' in the streets, and convening Socratic cafes, amongst the teeming denizens of Arrearsville, USA.