he would deflect and say that what is important is not his beliefs but thinking. — Fooloso4
I never said anything about definition or meaning — Mikie
I've been grateful to Heidegger, nonetheless, since my earliest philosophical studies in the late '70s for his monumental oeuvre as a/the paragon of how NOT to philosophize - or think-live philosophically (as Arendt points out) - as manifest by the generations of heideggerian obscurant sophists (i.e. p0m0s e.g. Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Rorty et al) who've come and gone in and out of academic & litcrit fashion since the 1950s ...
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One need merely say 'Tübingen Seminary' to understand what German philosophy is at bottom: an insidious theology. The Swabians are the best liars in Germany: they lie innocently. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888
Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere and wherever he can. — Hannah Arendt (1950ish)
One can forgive many Germans but there are some Germans it is difficult to forgive. It is difficult to forgive Heidegger. — Emmanuel Levinas, 1974
Perhaps that in addition to his rampant Germanophilia accounts for his reference to the "inner truth and greatness" of National Socialism, even in the 1953 publication of An Introduction to Metaphysics. — Ciceronianus
A form of elevated Volksgesinnung? — Tom Storm
It seems myopic to criticize someone for being on the wrong side of a socio-historic movement — Pantagruel
Yes, we are all too quick to criticize those who supported Hitler and the Nazi regime and referred to the Holocaust as the "self-annihilation of the Jews." The "wrong side of a socio-historic movement," forsooth. — Ciceronianus
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
should we allow situational moral issues to to dictate philosophical interpretation. — Pantagruel
It is a grave mistake to assume that the two are separate. — Fooloso4
philosophy, by its very nature, is a kind of intellectual idealization. — Pantagruel
We demonize in order to ignore. — Pantagruel
To acknowledge and face the problem is to neither demonize nor ignore him nor to deny his importance. — Fooloso4
should we allow situational moral issues to to dictate philosophical interpretation. — Pantagruel
However there are people walking around today committing atrocities that would make Hitler blush. — Pantagruel
Non sequitur. Because someone is worse doesn't mean someone else isn't bad.Ah. Now we learn Hitler wasn't that bad a fellow, after all. Loved dogs, they say. — Ciceronianus
Exactly what "problem"? — Pantagruel
Is Heidegger culpable for something, or of something? — Pantagruel
Atrocities are perpetrated daily in the name of economics. I'd as soon excoriate those responsible for that as Heidegger. — Pantagruel
The question is whether his philosophy and his Nazism are two different and unrelated things. — Fooloso4
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