the anonymous contrarian <a_rebours68 at yahoo.com> added to this discussion:
>>> 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
>>
>
> why not focus on 'material conditions for a good life' rather than a
> good 'way of understanding death'?
Spinoza- "A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life."
...the last lines of Virginia Woolf's biography of Roger Fry.
john mage