And as I mentioned, in regard to the persom who remarked about Sarte's early radical individualism and its supposed Heidegerrian influence, I am not aware of anything H says -- granted I am very far from being an H scholar -- that makes the fact of my own individual mortality especially important. Dasein does not translate as "me."
In some ways H's concern ecgoes with Marx's idea that one of the worst things about capitalism is that it enslaves people, denying their creativity and freedom, and devouring their limited time. H atributes this in a quasi-Weberian fashion -- I don;t know if he was influenced by Weber -- to technology, bureaucracy, and an instrumental attitude towards the world rather than to capitalism, but (a) he's partly right about that, and (b) he has a lot of the problem right eeven if he misses the full and correct etiology.
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> >
> >First of all, since Justin introduces age below,
> I'm a couple months
> >from my 76th birthday, and come from a family that
> usually makes it to
> >around 84 -- more distressingly sometimes makes it
> well beyond 84 but
> >not in good mental health.
> >
> >And I think death is no big deal -- or, rather,
> one's own death is no
> >big deal, since the dead don't know they are dead.
>
> Death may be no big deal; it's the prospect of of a
> long twilight existence
> "not in good mental health" that is terrifying. My
> father died of
> Alzheimer's disease, and I cannot imagine a worse
> end. Frankly, I think we
> were better off in the era of cigarette smoking,
> when you had a good chance
> of dropping dead in your tracks from a heart attack.
>
> Carl (56)
>
>
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