Dr. Eldred,
Your posts are generally highly enlightening so that I am a bit
puzzled by your assertion that "English is too glib" and does not offer
enough resistance for thinking, particularly Seinsdenken. Could you
elaborate? The general point seems to contain a reference to the
poverty of much recent English philosophical thinking compared to, say,
German idealism, Nietzsche and phenomenology. But how, specifically, is
English too glib?
I find Heidegger's conviction that Greek and German are the most
philosophical of languages one of the places where love of one's own
leads him to simply assert something as true-he offers no argument to
support this assertion in An Introduction to Metaphysics. His assertion
has whatever plausibility it can appeal to because of the existence of
Greek and German philosophy. But do you think that a language can be
"philosophical" or "resistant to thinking"?
Joel Beck
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Your posts are generally highly enlightening so that I am a bit
puzzled by your assertion that "English is too glib" and does not offer
enough resistance for thinking, particularly Seinsdenken. Could you
elaborate? The general point seems to contain a reference to the
poverty of much recent English philosophical thinking compared to, say,
German idealism, Nietzsche and phenomenology. But how, specifically, is
English too glib?
I find Heidegger's conviction that Greek and German are the most
philosophical of languages one of the places where love of one's own
leads him to simply assert something as true-he offers no argument to
support this assertion in An Introduction to Metaphysics. His assertion
has whatever plausibility it can appeal to because of the existence of
Greek and German philosophy. But do you think that a language can be
"philosophical" or "resistant to thinking"?
Joel Beck
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