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pete
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a nazi, an asshole, a metaphysician. and here i am, hammering through one of his books on a friday night, wondering what i've got myself into
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jane
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i stick to sartre
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pete
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i, personally, prefer foucault. he was more of a historian anyways.
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u24
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haven't read him. My fellow students tell me he's hard.
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I really enjoyed Heidegger. Then a peer informed me that I had wholly misunderstood him. So I was left with the paradox of having derived [true] meaning from [a false] interpretation. This is especially ironic given my earlier philosophical diatribes... .
Of particular note is his appreciation for Poetry as insight into truth.
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pete
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i find his going back to "true greek" with "true german" to be highly contentious. he never establishes that the presocrates had a monopoly on truth. he only asserts it and moves along, bring up this (and other) unsupported assertions again and again to make them seem true. seductively slippery.
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somebody
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Large quantities of Heidegger's work remains untranslated into English, I hear.
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pete
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Spiegel: And what takes the place of philosophy now?
Heidegger: Cybernetics.
From the Der Spiegel Interview.
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( interesting, but like nietzsche, ultimately incoherent from the logical perspective. and also like nietzsche, tainted by history. )
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061206
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pete
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they are both more believable than hegel, marx, or kant.
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( i guess that depends on what assumptions you begin with and how you define believable. )
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( but yeah, i would agree. )
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pete
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procrastanting, i have to finish the letter on humanism and the question concering technology before i go home... i really don't care though. heidegger. say. something.
i came into heidegger enjoying foucault.
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( i really like that whole branch of philosophy if i am thinking in terms of aesthetics and epistemology, but it tends to be inconclusive in metaphysical, scientific or real-world terms. some things remain ineffable and unknowable. i am ok with that. still, it's interesting to see someone try. )
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pete
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it is. i am a believer in existence being and, thus, regardless of what we think as humans, it has been so and it is so and it will continue to be so, so it is more important to know how we, as a society culture nation species have lived than trying to figure out why.
more a historian than a philosopher.
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061206
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pete
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more heidegger, it's almost over, but writing down my thoughts on heidegger make them (and him) seem more coherent, though still disagreeable.
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061207
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i have tits like large ripe watermelons
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061208
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pete
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now that that's over with i feel like i've woken from a long and tumultuous dream, only thing is it wasn't. time to tone down the philosophy-brain and get back in historian mode for the next project, then back to philosophy again. long live falsely labelled courses!
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061209
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what's it to you?
who
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