RE: the embryo as principle

On the Ereignis site ('new') you might have spotted Rafael Capurro's
PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS OF PRODUCING AND PATENTING ORGANIC LIFE
A quote:

"Human embryos are our natural origin and they are embedded
within our social and sexual life."



Just as the computer, or the new economy, or genetic
engineering, in short all technological procedures,
are fit to change everything that is, from the bottom up.
- after the bottom has been removed. Also a strong thinking
like Heidegger's can be used for those purposes. (in fact:
this is the legacy of metaphysics, the theory of the *whole*
of beings: everything is endlessly manipulable)

for instance in titles like:
3000 Michael@Wheeler*1960-*
4000 @Reconstructing the cognitive world : the next step / Michael Wheeler
4030 Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press

just makes use of Heidegger in order to do what MIT wants: engineering


or on the Ereignis site ('new') you might have spotted Rafael Capurro's
PHILOSOPHICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS OF PRODUCING AND PATENTING ORGANIC LIFE

I'm not going to destroy what i consider as dangerous as excusing
Abu Ghreib by pointing at 'torturing' doves, but merely point to a
more hidden, but FATAL, misinterpretation of Heidegger's comparison
of Dasein's and animal's world, in GA29/30, the thick book on METAPHYSICS.
What can be easily seen elsewhere in H's works is clear: animal and man
are not to be confounded. But that is precisely what Capurro is doing,
and that is what he reports as Heidegger's contribution, to the European
Ethics Summit Conference.

I don't give a damn really, they're all liars. But you, serious Heidegger
readers, could be led astray.

rene



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