On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:36 AM, Chris Doss wrote:
> (As if Heidegger's Nazism is more explicable by reference to his
> philosophy as opposed to, oh, his being a southern German in the
> 1930s.)
Nobody ever suggested that "southernness" was determinant of or inconsistent with Nazism. But if one claims to be a "philosopher" in the true and noble sense of that word, then one is obliged to a consistency of one's life activities--especially political--with one's professed ideas. When Sokrates refused to endorse execution of the generals after Argenusai, when he refused to participate in the arrest of Leon of Salamis, he was living Sokratic philosophy--just as Heidegger, in proclaiming his National Socialism, was living Heideggerian philosophy
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos