In-der-Blog-sein

Sampo is reading Understanding Computers and Cognition:

Both Gadamer and Heidegger reject rationalism, seeing the individual as a fundamentally social being that exists in continuous state of being immersed in any situation that they may be attempting to engage or analyze, with Heidegger going so far as to defy the distinction between subject and object.

It's a bit strong to state that Heidegger rejected rationalism or defied the subject-object distinction. He says that rationalism is fine, within its own system of logical rules, and Descartes says sensible things within his system. What Heidegger is saying is that both of these systems are in boxes of their own devising, and that it is possible to think outside those boxes and still think reasonable thoughts.

In The Age of the World Picture Heidegger says about Descartes and modernism:

With Descartes, there begins the completion of Western Metaphysics. Since, however, such a completion is only possible as metaphysics, modern thinking has its own kind of greatness.

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