What Husserl is doing here is showing that for each person, their participation in interpersonal activities
and consequentially objective meanings is not simply an paring of you and me to make a we, but a ‘we’ from
each person’s own interpretative vantage. — Joshs
his contempt for the Jews, are all well known. — Ciceronianus the White
Lastly, the majority of Germans didn't even know about the concentration camps until after the war — Gregory
There was certainly some seriously evil malice behind the Holocaust, but this obsession with trying to figure out who was to blame where and when is just not healthy and distracts us from the seeing others evils in proportion — Gregory
What would you contend he meant by referring to "the Jews"? — Ciceronianus the White
Whether race is truly a biological thing or not does not change the history and psychology of it — Gregory
One thing I would like to run by you. I looked into the Kierkegaard text you mentioned on anxiety, which actually does complement those essays I mentioned from Weber and Durkheim about the anxiety of modernity. So, a thought that occurs to me, is that perhaps eliminative materialism, and other forms of materialism, which deny free will, are actually motivated by that anxiety. This is because if you deny free will, and the agency of the individual, then the whole anxiety of modernity, the 'fear of freedom' that Erich Fromm wrote about, is solved by that. You don't have fear of freedom, because you're not, and can't be, free. Problem solved! What do you think? — Wayfarer
The greatest killer in history was actually a Dutch king who ordered the slaughter and butchering of Africans over his lifetime. — Gregory
The question is not which people killed the most. The question is: do you want to live in a Nazi society? If yes, you are welcome to read from Nazi philosophers and find them fascinating. If not, I would suggest to read Husserl's phenomenology rather than the arianized version of Heidegger. — Olivier5
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