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That's all wrongheaded. Sartre watered his - decidedly left wing - mélange of ideas & work with what he found in Heidegger's Being and Time. Having an influence on an existentialist philosopher is not being one! Foucault - who can hardly count as right wing - died saying he owed everything to He...

In any-case, all this petty blather aside, should anyone want to explore the raveling of the trip, by questioning, to the sight of the capacities of our current being, feel free to send me a message. Those silly beggars of statements about 'existentialism', which was, by the way, repugnant to Heideg...

"SO the heading is " can anyone...". What "WORK" are you referring to?" The work of firing blanks with Plato's tribe: "Yes, but discourse should have a limit. Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing ...

I'd prefer if clownish people kept their narrow mentation to themselves, from now hence. Will check back for more worthy responses tomorrow. Thanks. Only those who either have already deeply studied Heidegger and Plato, or those willing to learn through a proper bout of entanglement in the garden of...

This is all very crudely presented but an expert might still be able to get at it a bit, please help. It is possible, to be sure, that I make no advance, but I think there is something that goes, however modestly, past Heidegger's vision. -- Source: On the Essence of Truth in the beginning somewhere...