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From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us>
> CB: Don't you know that around here the question you don't want asked gets asked first ? :>)
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> So, what does Heidegger give us that we didn't already have ? ( You don't have to mention his politics)
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The notion that modernity's focus on material conditions for the good life lacks a way of understanding death that has nothing to do with Christianity and other non-modernist orientations to death.
Ian