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Damon Linker: Passionate Skepticism S2 E4

Meditations with Zohar

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Heidegger's Political Error Is Necessitated by His Philosophy

Heidegger was a little bit too eager to see his philosophy realized in the world. He's already got a kind of traditionalism and political conservatism which doesn't lead to Nazism. When you combine that then with a sort of tendency to scapegoat he's he pins it, basically holds the Jews responsible for all the things that he finds fought with in the history of philosophy. That's not because his philosophy requires it that's just because like he was a madman whose genius turned into paranoia well I don't disagree with actually that.

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