In a message dated 06/10/2004 19:42:58 GMT Standard Time,
a03jamga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Wasn't Hitler just an ordinary humanitarian?
There's an interesting book entitled "The aconceptual mind: Heideggerian
themes in holistic naturalism" by Pauli Pylkkö. Chapter seven "Is nazism
humansim?" might be of interest for you.
Reviewer: A reader
This is a very controversial book, one which is not frightened to deal with
some of the mind blowing consequences of holistic naturalism and quantum
theory. The most controversial chapter deals with Fascism. Pylkko blows open wide
the present debate on whether or not Martin Heidegger was a Fascist - a
point that Pylkko says is obvious - by asking us not to simply re-review
Heidegger's writings but asking us moreover to ask what Fascism REALLY is. For
Pylkko, Fascism isn't merely about anti-semiticism and war-mongering - although
they were 2 of its later consequences - but about a radical conceptual
relativism! In a word, cultures can't ultimately understand one another; and this is
more complex than Wittgenstein's notion of "forms of life", according to which
one needs to understand the lifeworld of people not just their language. But
the driving force behind Pylkko's argument isn't mere opinion, or yet more
phenomenology, but a scientific view, a sort of meta! physics, or ultimately
anti-metaphysics, based upon notions within the Copenhagen interpretation of
quantum theory.
New Age bookstores are full of shelves devoted to developing social models
derived from quantum physics, but Pylkko's book is the only book on this issue
which is based upon a highly sophisticated philosophical argument. I highly
recommend this book.
Regards,
Jud
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