The need for a biological metatheory is obvious. Even if physics takes care of biological processes, it only ever does so on parts of an organism. These parts, however, are lifeless in themselves, they only come to life in interaction with the entire organism. Life is not a single concept, it is a structural concept that describes a structure — Wolfgang

Information is then no longer just a rigid physical concept, but can be described in terms of density and thus in terms of causal force, which gains influence over areas of lower density by means of information or structural gradients. — Wolfgang

To ignore the ethical dimension of human being is to make what he intends to make transparent opaque. We are not only social animals, we are ethical animals, even if we do not always speak or act that way. — Fooloso4

His philosophy is amoral — Fooloso4

He supported it though. The Fuhrer and the extermination of Jews and others was, in line with his Protestant provincialism, fated. It is the sending or giving of Being, to which the authentic Dasein must hearken. The German people are Heidegger's chosen people, doing God's work on Earth. — Fooloso4

Does one's sense of right and wrong have to be fine grained and absolute to know that the extermination of human beings was wrong in the twentieth century? — Fooloso4

The Nazi death camps is not something that occurred two centuries ago and was not a widely embraced social norm. However reprehensible slavery was, to be a slave was not to be put to death. The rejection of slavery as a social norm was an acceptance of the inherent value of human life. — Fooloso4

That's because rocketry and philosophy are not the same thing. You seem to be implicitly admitting that Heidegger's work is like rocketry, and has no moral worth, no? — Leontiskos

Joseph Margolis told R.W. Sleeper Dewey made the remark after Margolis asked him to read some of Heidegger's work. — Ciceronianus

There were plenty of Germans in Heidegger's time who did not fall for the Nazi foolishness, and if Heidegger is to be held up as a paragon of human brilliance I don't think this argument holds water. — Leontiskos

There's a kind of magnificence in your extravagant, blithe dismissal of Heidegger's support for attempted genocide and a Germanic master race. If you read or listen to Wolin's book, by the way, you'll find that these positions have their basis in his philosophical musings (primarily in the Black Notebooks and his letters to his brother). As for his philosophy, such as it is, it seems to me that Dewey's alleged observation that Heidegger "reads like a Swabian peasant trying to sound like me" describes whatever is of worth in it, by my understanding, if we subtract H's mysticism and Romanticism. — Ciceronianus

given the brilliance of Dewey. — Joshs

The question is whether his philosophy and his Nazism are two different and unrelated things. — Fooloso4

Ah. Now we learn Hitler wasn't that bad a fellow, after all. Loved dogs, they say. — Ciceronianus

To acknowledge and face the problem is to neither demonize nor ignore him nor to deny his importance. — Fooloso4

It is a grave mistake to assume that the two are separate. — Fooloso4

the ontology thesis presented in Being and Time is worthy of being studied as an ontology thesis regardless of significant moral shortcomings on the part of the author. — Arne

developing a personal prejudice is still a broadly structural phenomenon. — fdrake

There is no meaning of life. We just exist, and die. And life goes on, and on, and on. For million, billion of years, etc etc etc. — niki wonoto

The evolution of our civilization has been widely exaggerated. — ssu

Nova by Samuel R. "Chip" Delany. — Jamal