In-der-Blog-sein

Goethea is recovering from an inaccurate reading of Heidegger:

My current take is that his philosophy was an admirable but ultimately unsuccessful attempt at holism. I feel that his negativity towards Western metaphysical/scientific/technological rationality is too dualistic...Manichaean as Walter Kaufmann would say. His thought fails to answer the question why, if Western metaphysics is so harmful, is it so widespread?

Mosquitos, and other pests, are also widespread and harmful. Evolution works that way. At various points Heidegger indicates that although he is critical of metaphysics, he thinks it evolved the way it did for apparent reasons. For one, it works. Science and technology have been successful in their ways. I'm not sure where the holism or duality are in this interpretation of Heidegger.  ¶ 7:05 PM