Heidegger

Cologne 29-Oct-2006

Philip Baker schrieb Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:08:37 +0100:

> In article , Michael Eldred online.de> 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
>

ME: That was throwing baby out with the bath water.
In any case, “reverence” is a poor substitute for thinking and, strictly speaking, philosophically irrelevant.
We feeble human beings invariably allow politics (our opinions thereon, our political convictions) to get in the way of thinking.

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Posted on Sunday, October 29th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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