Biografia Martin Headgdder

South International School
South International School
Students: Enrique Cateura
Cesar Alcantara

Class: Philosphy

Grade: 11th.

Section: B

Assingment: QuestionsDate: 2/10/12

Teacher: Mrs. Ortega

Questions
1. heidgger was a nazi, what are we to make up this fact?
A=/ Heidegger joined the nazi party (NSDAP) on May 1, 1933, ten days after beingelected Rector of the university of freiburg. A year later, in April 1934, he resigned the Rectorship and stopped taking part in Nazi Party meetings, but remained a member of the Party until itsdismantling at the end world war 2 Heidegger had held high hopes of reforming the university system with the help of Nazism as a conservatice revolution but, by the end of the War, had become expendable and waseven prevented from teaching. The denazication hearings immediately after World War II led to Heidegger's dismissal from Freiburg, banning him from teaching; after several years of investigation, theFrench military finally classified Heidegger in 1949 as a mitlaüfer or Nazi follower. The teaching ban was lifted in 1951 and he was granted emeritus status in 1953, but he was never allowed toresume his philosophy chair. His involvement with Nazism and the relation between his philosophy and National Socialism are still highly controversial, especially because he never apologized nor expressedregret, except privately when he called his rectorship and the related political engagement "the greatest stupidity of his life"
2. do we reject this philosophical writtings as fatally infectedby
nazicism?
A=/ Given the significant attachment of the philosopher to the climate and intellectual mood of National Socialism, it would be inappropriate to criticize or exoneratehis political decision in isolation from the very principles of Heideggerian philosophy itself. It is not Heidegger, who, in opting for Hitler, "misunderstood himself"; instead, those who cannot...