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glass_superman t1_ittdzmg wrote

Reply to comment by OhioTry in The philosophy of Martin Heidegger who argued that the Technological mindset has destroyed our relationship to the world so that Nature is seen as so many resources to exploit. He presents an alternative: a poetic relationship to the world by thelivingphilosophy

And he fucked Hannah Arendt which makes no sense until you read about Hannah Arendt and realize that she was pretty weird in her whole life.

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Bento_box_57 t1_ittud3q wrote

She was also a genius. Hannah might have been one of the smartest chain smokers to ever live.

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glass_superman t1_itug82p wrote

With a soft spot for Nazis, both Heidegger and Eichmann. Sometimes I wonder if she just did it for the controversy but I think she truly did believe that the Nazis were, like they say, not bad people, just following orders.

She was also a racist with elitist attitudes against "Oriental" Jews which was common back then and actually still somewhat common today in Israel but obviously no longer acceptable among the educated. I'm a Moroccan Jew who she would have looked down upon, so kind of not a fan of her elitist yekke bullshit!

What a weirdo.

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