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Damon Linker: Passionate Skepticism S2 E4

Meditations with Zohar

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I Think Heidegger's First Mistake Is Putting the Question of Being First

A lot of Jewish readers of Heidegger were saying that putting the question of being first is his first mistake. I kind of want to defend Heidegger a little bit against that criticism and say okay but justice is a concept ethics is a concept politics is a concept and those things do seem to be pre philosophical they seem to already have a meaning assigned to them. If we want to understand what they are and what they're supposed to be don't we need to ask about being, he says. "The meaning of my life has been forgotten not the question of the political the question of political only"

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