Of course it makes a difference if he supported geonocide. My number one problem with the three major religions on the West are their endorsement of mass murder at "God-Allah-Yawweh's" commands — Gregory
It seems you judge past ages after all, then. Is mass murder the only exception to your inclination not to judge those who lived in the past? — Ciceronianus the White
Psychoanalysis is gibberish with no grounding. — emancipate
you might want to read some of what Thomas Sheehan wrote about Heidi and his devotion to National Socialism sometime. — Ciceronianus the White
You guys are saying we should throw out the entire philosophy of a great writer because of possible poor judgments of his in terms of politics. — Gregory
For all his oompah oompah on "the question of the meaning of being" (or, according to Rorty, "myth of being"), Heidi's daseinanalysis is as autistic as it is solipsistic - I agree with the critical observations of Karl Löwith, Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Walter Kaufmann, George Steiner, et al - which makes his indefensible political "stupidity" somewhat intelligible. — 180 Proof
[ ... ] For Heidi ... shared practices (somehow) "impoverish understanding" of "the meaning of ... ", suggesting a preference for, or priority of, withdrawal from shared practices – the commons, or cosmopolity – into (the) "ownmost". IIRC, this 'solipsistic stance' is Heidi's ethical (Levinas, Adorno) failing ... — 180 Proof
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