grow up platt
>From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD A Goodbye Note
>Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 09:42:12 -0400
>
>Hi All:
>
>It comes as no surprise that Struan sees nothing wrong with ad
>hominem attacks.
>
>Struan writes:
> > No doubt people will consider pointing out this hypocrisy to be a
> > personal attack in itself and yet the 'ad hominem' attack is a perfectly
> > valid tool and entirely relevant if one sees a philosophical position as
> > being informed by the person who holds it. I agree with Fichte.
> >
> > FICHTE:
> > "What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of
> > man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture
> > that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated
>by
> > the soul of the person who holds it."
>
>Is anyone surprised that Struan agrees with Fichte, a philosophical
>father of the Nazis?
>
>From a review of "Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi
>Germany" by Hans Sluga:
>
>"The main point of Sluga's book is to show how Fichte first established
>a constellation of four concepts (crisis, nation, leadership, and order)
>which allowed him to mediate between philosophy and politics, how
>Nietzsche then transmuted and radicalized this constellation, and
>finally how this same constellation of ideas either in the Fichtean
>sense or in the Nietzschean sense enabled many German
>philosophers to become involved in Nazi politics."
>
>No wonder Pirsig is hard on Struan. I have no love for Nazi
>sympathizers either.
>
>Platt
>
>In case anyone is wondering, this is a example of an ad hominem
>attack which Struan feels is entirely legitimate. Goodbye Struan. I will
>not miss you, your ad hominem attacks, nor your monumental stupidity.
>
>
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