Posted by zeugma on December 9, 2005, at 5:39:20
In reply to Duh.. Gabbi, posted by Gabbix2 on December 8, 2005, at 19:34:27
> That should have said "Radium" not Uranium..
>
> I need coffee..>>yeah, i knew something was wrong there with uranium, but i have been too hung up on the transuranic elements lately. i need coffee too, but my stomach feels positively radioactive now. and like an idiot i'm eating chocolate as if that will calm it down. anyway, unfortunate that even genius is no excuse. werner heisenberg had some affiliation with the Nazi party. martin heidegger praised National Socialism until the Party told him it needed less Dasein and more ditch diggers- then he started grousing- venial, infantile.
Wittgenstein is my favorite genius, and he was pretty weird and not an exemplary character. He was fired from a kindergarten job because of his fondness for corporal punishment for little boys who didn't learn their times tables fast enough. He also threatened to shove a red hot poker up Karl Popper's *ss during an argument about scientific method. Well, he has my sympathies there. (about Popper not his teaching methods) [I am very politically incorrect I know.]
i do respect wittgenstein for his utter lack of sanctimoniousness. He is the exact opposite of heidegger in temperament. Heidegger thought he was the intellectual foundation of the Volk and thought he was above getting his hands dirty in its name. Wittgenstein thought philosophy was a lot of crap and actually did want to dig ditches.
Maybe david Hume was the only philosopher who wasn't a jerk.
-z
>
poster:zeugma
thread:586858
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/poli/20051121/msgs/587177.html