Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 20:54:54 +600
Subject: thinker and thought


Even if the question does lead to solipsism, did Heidegger really 
address it (solipsism, I mean)?  Would it have mattered to his 
philosophy if this were all a solipsistic fantasy or not?  Surely 
most of his philosophy didn't care about solipsism or God or 
Cartesian malignant geniuses.  And since he began with phenomenology, 
we could all be, in a certain sense, solipsistic, and still be 
Heideggerian in dealing with whatever hallucinations our mind or our 
Cartesian demons threw at us in the guise of reality.


Christopher Honey
AUM
Dept of History


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