You're either attributing more intelligence to the "little head" than I would, or risking reducing "the heart" to mere desire (not that desire isn't a big part of it); but also, I wasn't talking about Heidegger's black heart, but Arendt's heart. Sure he was brilliant. But! But! That swastika would make a great big BUT!!!! for me; I couldn't get over that. And for whatever reason H joined the Party, and whatever the manner of his alliegance to it. As for justification, I'd never ask it -- love and justification don't go together. But explanation, I don't understand what she saw in him -- whats he continued to see in him. AFter '33. Maybe even before, when he did join? jks
--- Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
> The heart is a mysterious place, and I would not
> judge anyone for her
> commitments. For all that, it would give me pause,
> as a Jew and a
> leftistis, to know that my adored, hwoever
> brilliant, was a "mild
> anti-semite." As a Jew and a leftist, my erstwhile
> beloved's joining
> the Nazi Party would be beyond what I could handle.
> jks
>
> ---------
>
> Maybe, but think about this again, for a moment. The
> Heart is a
> mysterious place...
>
> And yet it isn't the heart, that requires
> explanation or that becomes
> the ultimate mystery in this context. It's the Head,
> the intellect
> that can't be explained.
>
> In an odd reversal, it isn't the low motives that
> need the
> justification, but the high motives. When the little
> head tells you
> Hannah was sexy, fun, smart, articulate---all that
> is
> understandable. When the Big Head tells you to stay
> with Germany (and
> your wife) all the way down---for higher
> principles---that's the part
> that requires justification.
>
> Contrary to what I assume Blackburn would say, the
> little head has
> more Truth value, or a higher ethical standard than
> the Big
> Head---in this particular case.
>
> It's highly amusing to me, anyway. I am still
> working away on Strauss
> and I am watching him make one mistake after another
> exactly because
> he is following `higher principles'.
>
> Chuck Grimes
>
>
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