Posts Tagged ‘Nazism’

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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

The Escapist: “Mass Effect Saves Humanity - for What?”

Heidegger is arguably the most influential philosopher of the 20th century; he is inarguably the most controversial. His thinking on what it means to be human in a technologically advanced world still informs debates on genetics, medicine and artificial intelligence today. He was also a Nazi. You just have to deal with this sort of thing in contemporary philosophy.