I'm biased against Nazis. In the words of Indiana Jones, I hate those guys.
I shouldn't have called him overrated. I don't know nearly enough. I hate the guy.
Actually, on a quick squiz of my post it seems I didn't say he was overrated. But the quote from him was windy and decidedly not to my taste. It's the kind of stuff that I can be drawn into as if it contains something that would reward some real sympathetic pondering. And, based on how I respect lots of people who have a high regard for Heidegger, it probably would.
But on purely cost benefit grounds I desist. I doubt it would be of much help to me either in understanding stuff or in articulating it. That's got a lot to do with my own strengths and weaknesses in thinking about stuff and whom I'm interested in trying to think with — my 'audience' if you will. I don’t' think spouting Heidegger would be of assistance with the task of thinking with ordinary folks about the perplexities of the world we find ourselves in (dare I say, the world we've been 'thrown into' LOL.)
Thanks for that.
I'm biased against Nazis. In the words of Indiana Jones, I hate those guys.
I shouldn't have called him overrated. I don't know nearly enough. I hate the guy.
Actually, on a quick squiz of my post it seems I didn't say he was overrated. But the quote from him was windy and decidedly not to my taste. It's the kind of stuff that I can be drawn into as if it contains something that would reward some real sympathetic pondering. And, based on how I respect lots of people who have a high regard for Heidegger, it probably would.
But on purely cost benefit grounds I desist. I doubt it would be of much help to me either in understanding stuff or in articulating it. That's got a lot to do with my own strengths and weaknesses in thinking about stuff and whom I'm interested in trying to think with — my 'audience' if you will. I don’t' think spouting Heidegger would be of assistance with the task of thinking with ordinary folks about the perplexities of the world we find ourselves in (dare I say, the world we've been 'thrown into' LOL.)
And he was a Nazi. Hate those guys!
Nick, why do you think Heidegger is overrated?
I hate to be sceptical here, and this test is not definitive, but a search for that great Chekhov quote about "issues one scarcely understands" suggests it may not have ever been written by Chekhov: https://www.google.com/search?q=chekhov+%E2%80%9Cissues+one+scarcely+understands%E2%80%9D