[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Wed May 10 06:48:28 PDT 2006


speaking of which, what are the criteria used to decide that a philosopher (any philosopher) is _not worth reading_? Even in literature, there are such criteria, so some must exist in philosophy. or is it a matter of "anything goes"?

(I don't know much about philosophy, but I know what I like:

"Immanuel Kant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable.

"Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar Who could think you under the table.

"David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, [some versions have 'Schopenhauer and Hegel']

"And Wittgenstein was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.

"There's nothing Nietzche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

"John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

"Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day.

"Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle. Hobbes was fond of his dram,

"And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'

"Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed, A lovely little thinker, But a bugger when he's pissed.<

On 5/9/06, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
> A question for each of the Heidiggers on this list (Chris, Justin, Ravi):
>
> In your personal opinion, did the Important Thinker's jusqu'auboutist Nazism
> derive from
>
> a) his Philosophical stance?
>
> b) his own depravity or psychosis?
>
> or
>
> c) his preoccupation with Metaphysical Profundities causing an
> absent-minded neglect of what party membership paper he was signing?
>
> Shane Mage
>
> "Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
> consent to be called Zeus."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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-- Jim Devine / "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin



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