GRGR (20) Special Topic: Is It OK to Be a Manichean?

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Paul Mackin schrieb:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Lorentzen / Nicklaus wrote:
> > 
> >   one day in the 20s a student in marburg said that he had come to study 
> >   philosophy because he wanted to "improve his personality". heidegger, who
>  was 
> >   by accident around, simply answered: "better let it be". 


> No basis to say what exactly improvement would be I guess.


  it's not so much the "improvement", but the "personality". this word is, as 
  you know, rooted in the latin "persona". & this means: "mask".
                                                                     kfl