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From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>
> My similarity to Heidegger is what I fear. Above, I can only
> quibble with the _it_ (the apprehension of death), which, as
> I said, is entirely subjective and not really an _it_ at all.
> Having read a page and a half or so of H., I am pretty sure
> he could engulf such a modest, clear objection with a great
> surge of rhetorical protoplasm, which I could counter only
> by opening the dikes of Theravada Buddhist literature. Let
> us avoid this catastrophic outcome.
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If I remember right William Barret reported that when Heidegger had DT Suzuki read to him, exclaimed "that is what I have been trying to say all this time" or some such. Of course, then we'd have to look at the connection between Zen, the Samurai and Kamikaze.
>
> > As to Naziism, well, Heidegger was a pretty weird Nazi. ...
>
> That could be, but he was still a Nazi, and his philosophical
> work, however amusing or edifying, did not tell him not to be
> a Nazi. So any similarity between his thinking and mine
> worries me. I suppose I could give up thinking.
>
> -- Gordon
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You can and you can't. You will but you won't, until you can't. :-)
Ian