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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Is Heidegger a Nazi?

We were talking about Heidegger. And the reason we were distracted is he happened to also be a Nazi, but he nevertheless has a lot of powerful ideas. What are the ideas he's brought to the world? Okay. So let me see how much of it I can get on the thing. The whole history of philosophy from Plato forward, maybe even from the Pre-Secratics forward from like the 6th century B.C. to now has been motivated by a certain kind or has been grounded on a certain kind of assumption that it didn't have the right to make. Until we understand the way in which it's led us astray, we're not going to be

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