On 5/28/06, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
*In the last unfortunate century, maybe. Whether an inscrutable academic prof with Nazi sympathies will tower over the spectrum of philosophy in the centuries to come remains to be seen, but it's sadly possible.
Perhaps it is time to reexamine our tacit assumption that a great philosopher must be a good man. Perhaps it is as dubious as the assumption that philosophy implies politics or vice-versa, which Richard Rorty challenges using Heidegger as an example.
-- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
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