Imagine the transcript of the deposition of Martin Heidegger before the Committee on De-Nazification of Freiburg University in July 1945. Here would be a speech on a par with the apology of Socrates. At the beginning and at the end of metaphysics, the two greatest philosophers on trial--and, remarkably, on the same charges of impiety and corrupting youth, and by the same accusers, the powers of democracy restored. The alleged reactionary irrationalism...
Related Subjects
Philosophy