Indifference is a chosen self-blindness, not an innocent lack of awareness

Evidence

Letting-be became one of the most important concepts in the later Heidegger, denoting a hands-off way of attending to things. It sounds straightforward. ‘What seems easier’, asks Heidegger, ‘than to let a being be just the being that it is?’ Yet it is not easy at all, because it is not just a matter of turning indifferently away and letting the world get on with its business. We must turn towards things, but in such a way that we don’t ‘challenge’ them. Instead, we allow each being to ‘rest upon itself in its very own being’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 588 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Indifference to others treats them as obstacles and functions rather than subjects; Absence is not given by objects but posited by a consciousness that negates; The power to not-see is constitutive of seeing itself (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The power to not-see is constitutive of seeing itself #expands (0.88)
• Absence is not given by objects but posited by a consciousness that negates #expands (0.85)
• Heideggerian letting-be requires active attention, not passive indifference #complicates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 588