Oodles and oodles of rights

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Mon Apr 8 12:10:06 PDT 2002


----- Original Message ----- From: "a rebours" <a_rebours68 at yahoo.com>


> > ====================
> >
> > 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'?
>
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I don't see it as zero-sum but the obsession with the material conditions of the good life did help to bring about WWI which was the context for Heidegger's musings.

Ian



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