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24 Jan 2017, 3:32 am

Are there others here who are studying Martin Heidegger, the philosopher?



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24 Jan 2017, 7:12 am

More picking around the edges indirectly by way of other people's lectures.

I probably should give him a read one of these days though.


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24 Jan 2017, 9:21 am

I've been exposed to his work.

I feel harmony with some of his notions.

I don't like that he was sympathetic to Nazi Germany, though.



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24 Jan 2017, 10:56 am

Haven't studied him, but I seem to recall that he was "a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table."

But seriously, I had a very superficial introduction to him and I found his ideas either opaque or unconvincing,, and I haven't gone back. What brings you to your ALL CAPS question?


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24 Jan 2017, 4:27 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I've been exposed to his work.

I feel harmony with some of his notions.

I don't like that he was sympathetic to Nazi Germany, though.


The Jewish journalist, Hannah Arendt, who had coined the phrase, "The banality of evil," when she had covered the Eichmann trial in Israel, had had an affair with Heidegger years prior to that. She had defended Heidegger, saying he had confided in her that his Nazi affiliation was the worst mistake of his life.


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24 Jan 2017, 6:43 pm

I'll have to read more about this.

Thanks for the info.



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24 Jan 2017, 7:02 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I'll have to read more about this.

Thanks for the info.


Any time.


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24 Jan 2017, 7:13 pm

Adamantium wrote:
Haven't studied him, but I seem to recall that he was "a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table."



https://youtu.be/xQycQ8DABvc



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24 Jan 2017, 7:16 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Adamantium wrote:
Haven't studied him, but I seem to recall that he was "a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table."



https://youtu.be/xQycQ8DABvc


That was hilarious! :lol:


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24 Jan 2017, 7:28 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Adamantium wrote:
Haven't studied him, but I seem to recall that he was "a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table."



https://youtu.be/xQycQ8DABvc


I knew someone would understand! 8)


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24 Jan 2017, 7:34 pm

And as for the Nazi angle, while the party appreciated an intellectual's stamp of approval, they personally ridiculed his philosophy as gibberish.


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