Heidegger

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From: “Anthony Crifasi”
To: “Discussions pertaining to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger”

Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Heidegger Email List?

> —– Original Message —–
> From: “bob scheetz”
>
>
> > —– Original Message —–
> > From: “Anthony Crifasi”
> >>
> >> agreed that it’s grotesquery, but philosophy gave up its claim to
> > “plights”
> >> and such long ago, ever since Hume leveled all ethical significance to
> > mere
> >> *felt* significance; and Kant surpassed him, but at the cost of any
> > reality
> >> to the phenomena; and Heidegger exposes technologizing as an obscuring
> >> way
> >> of being, using language suggestive of moral outrage (the “monstrous”
> >> hydroelectric dam and such), without the slightest explanation for why
> >> the
> >> outrage, as opposed to the simple recognition of unrecognition of what
> >> is.
> >> Philosophy voluntary gave up its right to talk big long ago.
> >
> > Yes, such were/are the monstrous headbirths, truncated being of
bourgeois
> > man. …who’s afraid of virginia wolf? Thankfully, hegel, marx, sartre,
> > …
> > lib theology preserved the existential essence.
>
> Passionate exhortation is not the same as philosophically preserving the
> existential essence of moral outrage. For example, this is what Marx
himself
> says about whether morality is to be “preserved”:
>
> “‘Undoubtedly,’ it will be said, ‘religious, moral, philosophical and
> juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical
development.
> But religion, morality philosophy, political science, and law, constantly
> survived this change. There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom,
> Justice, etc. that are common to all states of society. But Communism
> abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality,
> instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in
> contradiction to all past historical experience.’ What does this
accusation
> reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the
> development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms
> at different epochs. But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is
> common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by
> the other. No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages,
> despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain
> common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with
> the total disappearance of class antagonisms.”
>
> Among the forms of social consciousness listed, which will “completely
> vanish with the total disapearance of class antagonisms,” is “morality.”
> Lots of passionate exhortation, though. I think the phrase healanthenry
> used to use was, “empty protest.”

you’d better re-read your marx qoute. hen would have had a drollery, but i
think you just shot yer bolt with the weapon pointed the wrong way.

Posted on Monday, July 31st, 2006 at 3:05 am
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