Re: Caring-for, and Dasein

The same argument that Rorty makes, and just as implausible. I refer you
to two lines from Heidegger, one where he says in a letter to Loewith
that he philosophizes out of his "I am", and the other where he says that
his ontology has an ontic model in mind (Being and Time, I think around
page 384). He also says in his lectures in the 30's and 40's that he is
writing "politics" in the essential sense when he is doing philosophy;
the polis is the pole around which all things revolve, which means that
the polis is the same as Being.

The intuitive example for Rorty would be Frege, whose enthusiasm for
National Socialism has no plausible connection to his work on
mathematical logic. Heidegger is not doing that kind of philosophy. His
philosophy comes out of his time and as an encounter with the fundamental
historical developments of his time.

Chris


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