Heidegger

[MichaelB]

the mysticism for me arises when i wonder how i become associated
with saying something so benign boring and meaningless as 'he's very
important philosopher'.  heidegger may have (supposedly) freed
himself from metaphysics, and he may have radically reinterpreted
previous philosophers, but i don't think he ever freed himself of
inventing utterances by people and then 'quoting' them.

In the room where idiots come and go,
Speaking of Martin Heidegger....

michael


--- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:
> 
> >  mjoking at yahoo.com writes:
> > 
> > << He's very important
> >  > philosopher  >>
> > 
> > 
> > Well, why are philosophers so important anyways?  I mean other
> than for 
> > cocktail party chatter...
> > 
> 
> 
> Do philosophers think they themselves are terribly important? Say
> as
> compared to engineers. What would Wittgenstien say? Or Heideggar?
> Which kind of thinking is more important--highly abstract, or more
> down to
> earth practical. Seems like highly abstract gets undue respect,
> thus the
> philosophy talk at cocktail parties. Wasn't it a Heideggarian aim
> to
> free philosophy from traditional metaphysics, which sounds much
> like
> freeing philosophy from philosophy, a highly abstract operation no
> doubt
> itself.
> 
> Seems to me a philosopher would be more interesting than important.
> 
> No, that's not right either.
> 
> Guess my answer is, don't know.
> 
> 			P
> 


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