Diabetus Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Do you agree with Heidegger's view of looking at the earth beyond a place for its resources even though he was a Nazi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youthedog Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 What Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Even nazis can have intelligent or caring ideas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma# Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 If you actaully read into his history closer, even though he supported many Nazi views, he wasn't strongly anti-Semitic. In fact even though he never regretted being affiliated with Nazism (being a member of the Nazi party), he mentions that being part of Nazism was "die größte Dummheit meines Lebens" roughly saying it was one of the greatest follies of (my) his life. Being a professor, Heidegger went as far as to defend Eduard Fränkel, one of the Jewish professors, against the new antiSemitic laws. It's interesting to read that he had also helped multiple Jewish colleagues emigrate away due to their firing (of being Jewish) Moreover, the attribution of communism to Judaism was ridiculed by him. He went as far as to claim that if Bolshevism (c.f. Communism) is Judaism then Christianity is fundamentally bolshevism. I guess we won't really know since we aren't him I personlly would attribute him more so to be a philosopher than a Nazi. A basic read-up of some of his schools does interest me in his philosophy. I contend he is definitely controversial but not necessarily anti-Semitic (which is what I'm guessin' you're trying to imply for using the term 'Nazi') Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDevil6193 Posted January 27, 2013 Share Posted January 27, 2013 Damn it enigma tldr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabetus Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 His nazism was odd because of his views of the way we use the earth and technology taking away from the self. I've heard many different things as to why he joined the nazi party, but the one that made most sense to me was that he didn't want the university to close down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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