I should add to make clear: "the Jews" here refers to your example of Jews-in-
prison-camps, not "Jews" as a race or religion in general...
Tom Blancato writes:
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>Lois,
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>I want to reply to this in detail. I think there are some serious problems
>with your view here, though I think your intentions are good. I think
>authenticity might need two components: death-possibilizing and freedom from
>threat. Given the condition of threat, the Jews might not have been able to
>"make it" to authenticity in certain senses. The kind of death that Heidegger
>speaks of is not "counting the hours", but "death as death". The
>preconditions for this are not simply to get death into view, but the kind of
>thinking that does this. There are many ways to bring death into a certain
>"view", but these do not all count as an authentic and "proper" engagement. I
>want to develop this more if you are interested. Heidegger doesn't develop
>the "freedom" theme, I think.
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>Regards,
>
>Tom Blancato
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>Lois Shawver writes:
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>>On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, Eric C Puryear wrote:
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>>> I find it difficult to find the Nazi in Heidegger--
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>>If authenticity requires a consciousness of the possibility of not-being,
>>that is of one's own death, then one might foster authenticity by increasing
>>people's consciousness of the possibility of their deaths. Very few
>>victims of the holocaust fell into idle talk while noticing the
>>possibility of their own deaths.
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>>Just a thought.
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>>..Lois Shawver
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>Tom Blancato
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There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.
Tom Blancato
tblancato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)
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