cosmopolitanism

fragility of justice

Martin Heidegger

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

philosopher

university professor

University of Chicago

innovator in the field of

animal rights

ethics

feminism

Greek philosophy

political philosophy

Roman philosophy

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

classical scholar

university teacher

American Philosophical Society

is at its broadest and purest, a moral commitment to universal values.

at its broadest, perhaps purest, cosmopolitanism refers to a moral commitment to universal values. (nussbaum 1994).

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is anti-philosophical, anti-socratic in his teaching. He was an authority figure, and he fed people's desire to submit themselves to authority.

The thing I object to the most about Heidegger was that he was a guru. He practiced philosophy not as a Socratic practice of exchange, where you and I are equal, and it's just a matter of who has the better argument. But no, he was an authority figure, and he fed people's desire to submit themselves to authority. So I think actually his way of teaching was anti-philosophical.

Martha Nussbaum

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