Oodles and oodles of rights

John Mage jmage at panix.com
Sat Apr 6 13:04:28 PST 2002


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)

>>

>> ====================

>>

>> 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



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list