tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post2439118486124385865..comments2024-03-29T12:21:24.976+03:00Comments on Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity: Experiment in Nihilism: Suicide as ideologyDaas Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07252904288544083215noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-64557241643750093782010-10-07T03:04:07.345+02:002010-10-07T03:04:07.345+02:00All of Heisman's writings should be deleted fr...All of Heisman's writings should be deleted from the web. This would be more consistent with his philosophy of nihilism than keeping them up there.betzalelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-53451572276632417362010-10-06T23:59:30.095+02:002010-10-06T23:59:30.095+02:00However perverse this young man's philosophica...However perverse this young man's philosophical orientation, however wrongheaded his understanding of the relationship between philosophy & life, this much can be said in his favor: he obviously had true integrity. <br /><br />There is, in fact, an interpretation of Nietzsche (originating, I think, with Lou Salome) that he went mad for the sake of his philosophy, or, more pointedly, for the sake of its production--which is to say: he went mad so that his (sympathetic) readership would have no need to. As nihilism seems the ideology characterizing our time, the same may be proffered of this Mitchell Heisman; he would appear to have made himself a <i>korban</i> so that others might glean some kind of understanding from his opus.Grudging Respectnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-4631106239864150272010-10-06T23:57:53.989+02:002010-10-06T23:57:53.989+02:00"Tota philosophorum vita commentatio mortis e..."<i>Tota philosophorum vita commentatio mortis est.</i> [The whole life of philosophers is the meditation of death.]" <br />Cicero, <i>Tusculan Questions</i> II.30.<br /><br />"Cicero says that 'To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die' [ibid. I.31], the reason of which is, because study and contemplation do in some sort withdraw from us our soul, and employ it separately from the body, which is a kind of apprenticeship and a resemblance of death; or, else, because all the wisdom and reasoning in the world do in the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die." <br />Montaigne, <i>Essays</i> (1588) I.xix.1 (ed. Hazlitt 1877)beshittaso?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7309929059139673041.post-47597726246059680652010-10-06T23:01:14.118+02:002010-10-06T23:01:14.118+02:00As if we needed to be reminded -- no doubt, we do ...As if we needed to be reminded -- no doubt, we do -- that philosophies are not just theory.<br /><br />Thx for posting. I copied it to friends in college campus svcs.Passaic friendnoreply@blogger.com