Tradition and Heritage |
Wednesday Oct 14 2009
By Jim Selman | BioI was listening to a lecture today on the philosopher Martin Heidegger. He is pretty difficult to understand at the best of times, even though I have been a student of his thinking for many years. The lecture today spoke of the distinction he made between ‘tradition’, which he felt was a bad thing, and ‘heritage’, which he thought was a good thing. In fact, he felt heritage was essential to understanding the true nature of ‘Being’. I won’t pretend to grasp it all fully, but what I did get was that[Read More]
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