Heidegger

In article , Michael Eldred writes
>If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in German Idealism,
>and the sequence of -isms thereafter through positivism to so-called
>’analytical
>philosophy’ (analyticism?), it becomes apparent that Heidegger’s diagnosis of
>Seinsvergessenheit, even in the metaphysical sense of forgetting the
>ontological
>difference, has its justification. “Seinsvergessenheit” can be rendered as
>’forgetting of being’, ‘oblivion to
>being’, ‘ontological amnesia’. It’s as if the Weltgeist had got Alzheimer’s
>since the early nineteenth century. Fortunately, it can always recover in some
>future time.

There were plenty of philosophers in Britsh universities during the 19th
century that labelled themselves as Hegelians. Only WWI put an end to
the reverence shown towards German idealist philosophy.

–
Philip Baker

Posted on Saturday, October 28th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
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