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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 24. November | 122 comments (122 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The Heidegger Dilemma (none / 1)

Hmmm. I'm not sure your analogy is entirely on point. The fact that a Nazi might be talented in military strategy does not run counter to our concept of a military strategist in the way that the assertion that a Nazi might be a great philosopher runs counter to our concept of a great philosopher.

I am not saying that we should reject everything that Friedman (or Heidegger) wrote out of hand. But I believe that egregious errors in judgment are fair grounds for approaching an individual's views on any topic with a dose of skepticism.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Mon Nov 24th, 2008 at 05:20:04 AM EST
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Re: The Heidegger Dilemma (none / 0)

Philosophy isn't just a matter of moral judgments - his philosophical arguments might have been as "brilliant" a success as Hitler's early military strategy.
Friedman has made a lot of judgments and has been critical of almost everything else Bush has done. One mistake, even major, doesn't necessarily mean all his other judments will be wrong.
A dose of scepticism is always a good idea - even with people we like and whose judgments so far seem to have been sound - I TRY to be critical of Chomsky - but it's difficult :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Mon Nov 24th, 2008 at 08:03:17 AM EST
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