On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Martin Baeuerle wrote (on the superiority of German
as a philosophical language):
> Heidegger actually did claim that. His point was that only German is
> as complex as greek in its means to express the deepness of thought.
This strikes me as not quite right. Surely it is not the *complexity* of
German that gives it its putative superiority, but, as with Greek, it is
the *concreteness* of its terminology. Greek and German are in touch with
the original primal experience of Being, unlike other European languages,
which view Being only through the corruption of the Latin translation of
the Greek terms.
Martin Weatherston
East Stroudsburg University,
East Stroudsburg, PA 18301.
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