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persianoracle on Heidegger's critique of positivism, with synecdoche.

Heidegger assumes that Descartes' epistemological formula "Cogito ergo sum," was the culmination of Plato's work. The problem, of course, is subject-object. The subjectivism of Descartes and the entire modern period relies on Plato for its foundation (see Robinson, p. 17). Leibnitz's universalistic tone which overcomes the human concern of Descartes lends itself to Kant's transcendental only to find Hegel's awareness considered fully in Nietzsche's ubermensch. The whole tradition lends itself to Nihilism in not only Heidegger's sense of the term, but traditionally as well. And so, the tree's roots: technicity, logic, and humanism are those things which first meet the Heideggerian axe.

Careful with that axe, Martin.  ¶ 6:56 AM