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Comment by darrenjyc at 01/01/2025 at 21:48 UTC
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René Girard's I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001) — An online philosophy reading group discussion on Tuesday February 4, 2025, open to everyone. More info here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyEvents/comments/1hkhviu/ren%C3%A9%5C_girard%5C_i%5C_see%5C_satan%5C_fall%5C_like%5C_lightning%5C_2001/[1][2]
Comment by darrenjyc at 01/01/2025 at 23:09 UTC
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https://www.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyEvents/comments/1hrf3g6/the%5C_culmination%5C_heidegger%5C_german%5C_idealism%5C_and%5C_the/[1][2]
A provocative reassessment of Heidegger’s critique of German Idealism from one of the tradition’s foremost interpreters. Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy ended — failed, even — in the German Idealist tradition. In *The Culmination*, Robert B. Pippin[3] (University of Chicago) explores the ramifications of this charge through a masterful survey of Western philosophy, especially Heidegger’s critiques of Hegel and Kant. Pippin argues that Heidegger’s basic concern was to determine sources of meaning for human life, particularly those that had been obscured by Western philosophy’s attention to reason. *The Culmination*��offers a new interpretation of Heidegger, German Idealism, and the fate of Western rationalism...