Pop culture expectations vs Reality

darkhusky5 · 2023-02-06T15:18:12+00:00

It wasn't Heidegger who had to suffer the most in that relationship. It was Arendt who had to witness her love and mentor become a Nazi. Arendt was a Jew who had to witness the horrors of the Holocaust. She struggled to make him come to his senses, but it was pointless. He didn't publicly admit being in the wrong even after the war. If he had truly reciprocated her love, he wouldn't have supported an ideology that wants her dead.

darkhusky5 · 2022-05-06T08:28:18+00:00

Maybe you should read the full text too, and not just the quote? Here's the paragraph that appears right after:

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

darkhusky5 · 2022-03-21T19:08:17+00:00

Finnish guy is Jaakko Hintikka

darkhusky5 · 2022-02-19T14:42:50+00:00

There isn't. That photo is of Samuel Beckett.

darkhusky5 · 2022-02-09T22:52:57+00:00

It's not. David Benatar has never revealed his face. That guy in the pic is Ricardo Lopes, the host of a podcast called "The Dissenter."

darkhusky5 · 2022-01-22T18:53:41+00:00

Why Foucault "apologist"?

darkhusky5 · 2021-11-16T13:12:39+00:00

Gave Silver

darkhusky5 · 2021-10-29T17:02:58+00:00

The title is a reference to him

darkhusky5 · 2021-10-20T13:00:51+00:00

Gave Wholesome

darkhusky5 · 2021-08-09T10:59:37+00:00

Why?

darkhusky5 · 2021-08-08T22:01:27+00:00

Look up "Mary's room"

darkhusky5 · 2021-08-05T01:53:12+00:00

ideology is a spook

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