Re: MD Nihilism

From: Chris Vlaar (c.c.vlaar@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2005 - 09:18:41 GMT

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    Hello Marsha,

    Well, if you read Nietzsche than it becomes quite clear that Nihilism
    is/was indeed frightening(Remember the aforism on the death of God in
    'The gay science"?"Who took the sponge and wiped away the whole
    horizon?"), the question emerges: is it still frightening? To Moq'ers
    it is, for the MOQ is teleological metaphysics, one of the frightning
    things about nihilism is that there is no telos - and ofcourse non of
    the other 'atia'. For Heidegger, as far as my knowledge of
    Heidegger's take on nihilism reaches, is nihilism
    'Seinsvergessenheit', which is indeed very manifest today, people
    surrendering themselves to technology in the broadest
    sense(unescapable), specifically to entertainment. This is ofcourse a
    very short and distorted version but it is an entrance at least..
    kind rergards, Chris

    On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:14:46 -0500, MarshaV <marshalz@charter.net> wrote:
    > At 10:32 PM 2/23/2005 +0100, you wrote:
    > >Hi Marsha,
    > >
    > >If you want to know about Nihilism you should read Nietzsche and
    > >Heidegger; the MOQ is the antipode of nihilism.
    > >Regards, Chris
    >
    > Greetings Chris,
    >
    > I haven't read Heidegger, but I've read most of Nietzsche. Nietzsche was
    > heroic. I'm not sure if MOQ is the opposite of nihilism. Maybe the
    > implications of the word are frightening. I don't think they should be
    > frightened.
    >
    > Marsha
    >
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