Re: MD Heidegger

From: Kevin Sanchez (moksha23@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 10:04:04 GMT


> And who can deny the coalescence of Neitzsche's thinking after an admitted
> healthy dose of Schopenhauer who in turn was something of a "closet"
> Buddhist...

nietzsche turned schopenhauer on his head,
    sch.'s asceticism was to ni. a denial of life -
and ni. wasn't attempting to add to eastern philosophy
(not to mention that he critiqued buddhism at length,
    citing multiple sources)

> I've read enough to know that there are enough similarities with
Heidegger's
> "being", Pascal's "wager", and Keirkegaard's "will to be a Christian" to
> believe that your idol who embraced the Nazi regime certainly pilfered a
bit
> here and there.

huh?
i know of no similarities between those concepts,
    other than might be made by a catholic schoolteacher -
and oscar schindler was a nazi too,
    are we to automatically exclude every point-of-view
        that happened to originate in that time-period?
    (if so, be ready to give up some of
        civilization's medical/technological advances)
and do not you think other countries have been complicit
    in comparable (though not equivalent) atrocities?
does america's murder and enslavement of millions of africans
    mean i can't read thomas jefferson?
ad homs are fun though :)

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