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 --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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