Heidegger

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Van: heidegger-bounces at soca.ecu.edu.au
[mailto:heidegger-bounces@soca.ecu.edu.au]Namens Anthony Crifasi
Verzonden: woensdag 31 mei 2006 19:16
Aan: Discussions pertaining to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger
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—– Original Message —–
From: “Jan Straathof”

> Nice post Eskandar, it made me think about John Rawls’ idea of the
> overlapping consensus. Conflicting parties, he proposes, should not
> focus on and play out their differences, but do the opposite, i.e. look
> for those moral and political ideas that they share and are willing to
> defend as universal. A fruitful moral discussion is only then possible
> when a background of moral unanimity is found and accepted. From
> such an instance of a partially overlapping consensus the parties can
> work through higher stages of agreement, optimalizing decisions and
> reach mutually acceptable solutions. The questions at hand here are
> on what (philosophical, religious, cultural, economical etc.) fields,
> where the Israelis and the Palestinians or Iran and the U.S. share the
> same moral and political interests, can we find initiatives for the
> development of an overlapping consensus ? Any ideas ?

John Rawls is something that you’re not - a complete and utter relativist.
If his “overlapping consensus” is to be the ultimate ground here, all sorts
of atrocities in history could be easily validated, due to an overlapping
consensus at the time. Unless I’ve been misreading you for the better part
of a decade, I don’t think you would agree with that.

and you are a willful dogmatist, so stay well out, but first go right
through, the forces of mutual widerwille. Seinsvergessenheit is not
so innocent as books suggest.

rene

Posted on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 10:50 am
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