Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 14:25:48 EST
Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one



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In a message dated 16/03/2003 18:47:18 GMT Standard Time, 
Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com writes:


> Subj:Re: Being and Time-section one
> Date:16/03/2003 18:47:18 GMT Standard Time
> From:    Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com (Paul Murphy)
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> 
> Heidegger as the thinking man's Ian Paisley?  Makes sense to me too.

Jud Evans.




> Is Heidegger rejecting the Enlightenment in favour of a subjective, Utopian,
> irrational, instinctual, pre-logical notion of being?  If so, then read the
> chapter on Romantics in Craig's 'The Germans' which gives more info about
> Romanticism in German culture, and seems to fit in with the v strong
> anti-Liberal strand running through German history.  Remember:  the Liberal
> revolution of 1848 was defeated in Germany, in the 20th Century Germany had
> 2 different Totalitarian regimes, both with unique and common facets.
> Living in Northern Ireland, I'm v familiar with anti-Liberal projects, and
> have come to strongly despise, hate and suspect them.  Any project based
> strongly on a genetic theory of race, religion, ethnicity and so on, is apt
> to be built on ideas of instinct, 'nature', the subjective, irrational,
> over-determination of 'genius' and other instinctual theories of
> intellection or creativity.  What is unnatural: v simply, what is cultural -
> intellect, art, decorum, politeness, law, poetry, opera, music, literature,
> painting (apart from the painting of kerbstones with their appropriate
> flags), theatre, film, photography, free speech, openness, democracy,
> rights.  What is natural in my society: beer, fegs, marches, drums, flutes,
> violence, heterosexual monogamy of the most simple-minded kind, flags,
> taboos, shibboleths, (not hatich but aitch, the retained haitch means you
> are a Fenian), dogshit, dog ends of dogdays, one dimensional fascists with
> green white and gold or red white and blue and dogshit in their minds.
> Wilkommen zu frei fascist OstBelfast!
> 

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