What's good about Heidegger?

[Santino]

May be I have this wrong, but isn't that a bit deterministic as the 'very definition'? I can see how that gets to the cul-de-sac of post-modern identity politics (or the worst of it).

'Very definition' is a bit of a flowery twiddle, but Heidegger did see it as essential (in a non-Platonic sense) to Dasein that it take a stand on its own being. That's what we do, and hammers and stones and insects don't.

 

[teahead]

'...but Heidegger did see it as essential (in a non-Platonic sense) to Dasein

still getting away with this Consciousness thing without Descartes' leave. Me, I'm back home in several ontological little pieces and getting into an iron stove with that bottle of wine. (fyi how Descartes seems to have dealt with peeps that found a priori thought distressing)