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From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:37:44 EDT
Subject: Re: Denial


For Heidegger, all scientific thinking and
philosophy, at least from the time of the pre-Socratics, has failed to
concern itself with this fundamental question of 'being'....science and
philosophy take this fundamental 'beingness' of the world as if it were
inevitable and unproblematic....[N]ature is precisely not a necessary order
but an extraordinary contingency that might either  not have existed at all
or happened in some entirely other kind of way." [Soper, in "What is
Nature"]



Jud:
The reason why all scientific thinking and philosophy, at least from the time 
of the pre-Socratics, has failed to
concern itself with the so-called  'fundamental question of 'being'  is that 
THERE IS NO FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION  OF 'BEING'
in the first place to be 'concerned' about.  The so-called 'fundamental 
question of 'being',  like the 'fundamental question of 'God' is just a ontological 
con-trick for the gullible. 

As to nature not being  a necessary order but an extraordinary contingency 
that might either  not have existed at all
or happened in some entirely other kind of way - that is a complete  bucket 
of bullshit. Things are the way they are because they could not have happened 
in any other way - if they could've they would've.  It was IMPOSSIBLE for 
Heidegger not to have been a teen-age seducing Nazi  arsehole - there was no way he 
was going to be a Jehovah's Witness or a Social Democrat. My evidence? Just 
look at his Nazi Party Membership Card.  What has happened is the ontological 
way it had to happen.

Jud Evans


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