User talk:Filinthe

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Your edits on Heidegger and Nazism
Hi Filinthe. Please do not edit without providing reasons for your changes. You made many edits to the article on Heidegger without providing justifications. I have looked at many of them: some are good, others are highly contestable and need at least to be discussed on the talk page for the article. In particular you have made a number of changes that are either original research or are unsourced. I am going to revert the article accordingly. Mfhiller (talk) 02:58, 14 May 2012 (UTC)mfhiller
 * You are still editing the article on Heidegger and Nazism without providing reasons for your edits. Please do not do this. Also what seems like a defence of Heidegger falls under WP rules governing "minority" views, undue weight, and original research. Please keep editing the article on Heidegger and Nazism, but can you please: state reasons for the changes you are making, not give undue weight to the minority view that Heidegger "really wasn't so bad" (even though it is interesting material that should be included), and raise significant changes on the talk page? Cheers. Mfhiller (talk) 03:00, 16 May 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Your recent edits
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Heidegger and Nazism
The new lede on Heidegger and Nazism is improved. I haven't had much time the last week to pay much attention to this discussion but I am grateful for your contributions. Will respond more later. Mfhiller (talk) 00:21, 31 May 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Edit summaries
Please provide edit summaries. Unless you provide edit summaries I am simply going to revert your edits on the basis that you are providing no justification for your changes. I have asked you to provide edit summaries previously. WP guidelines insist that you do this also. Cheers. Mfhiller (talk) 02:46, 7 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller
 * At the bottom of the page you are editing there is a section titled "edit summary," please fill this in. You will see when you look at the edit history of any article that just about everyone provides justification for changes. Just ask for further help if you can't find the place to add your edit summary. It is really helpful for others to be able to see edit summaries. Mfhiller (talk) 02:50, 8 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller
 * Thanks also for the time you are spending editing articles about Heidegger. You are bringing so-to-speak the controversy back into the controversy. It is a worthwhile discussion and the article in particular is better off with a balanced presentation of both sides (although we all have to agree in the end, given Ott's research, that Heidegger at the very least was way too complicit with the Nazis). I've never thought, however, that Heidegger's philosophy has much at all to do with Nazism, and, indeed, points against it. Cheers. Thanks again. Mfhiller (talk) 03:06, 8 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Articles for deletion Mitläufer
Thought you might be interested to comment. I created the article Mitläufer. It is now under Articles for deletion/"Mitläufer". Mfhiller (talk) 02:23, 12 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller
 * Actually just go to my talk page to find the appropriate links. Can't seem to get these to work. Mfhiller (talk) 02:29, 12 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Thanks for your contributions. Let's see what happens with the Mitläufer article. Mfhiller (talk) 03:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Heh Filinthe, you don't have a user page
Heh Filinthe. You don't have a user page. Why don't you say something about yourself... like "I speak French, I speak German, I even speak English." Cheers from Canada. Mfhiller (talk) 23:58, 26 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller
 * Brilliant. Thanks as always.Mfhiller (talk) 06:10, 28 June 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Heidegger and Nazism
Thanks Filinthe for your recent comments on the Heidegger and Nazism talk page. As always they are thought-provoking. I'll respond at length a bit later. I want to say, however, that you are making invaluable contributions to the article and that I don't want to offend you with my edits. I obviously have a different perspective on the Heidegger case than you - but I am no sycophant to Heidegger's detractors. There are in my opinion some clearly unresolvable issues regarding Heidegger's support of National Socialism. Yes, it is deeply troubling, but one does not need to, so-to-speak, throwout the baby with the bathwater. The resolution I have come to myself is that Heidegger became deeply confused about the distinction between the ontological and the ontic already in' Being and Time and that this was the source of his Nazism (also the fact that he remained embedded in a particular form of conservative Catholicism). Don't ever think for a second, however, that I am dismissive of Heidegger. How on earth doesn't one become confused about the distinction between the ontological and the ontic? Look again at Kant's first sentence of the First Preface of the Critique of Pure Reason. It identifies the problem quite clearly: we are as thinking beings forced to ask the question of the meaning of the question of being but are almost incapable, because of the limits of reason, of providing an answer. How is that for a philosophical dilemma? Mfhiller (talk) 02:43, 12 July 2012 (UTC)mfhiller

Heh Filinthe :) I've been reading through the Heidegger and Nazism article to see what you've done. The Langwald reference is very interesting - I'm not sure what to make of it though. I'll see if there is anything in English (since I can't read German or French). I'll do some editing here soon after the Aurora shooting article has cooled down a bit. Cheers. Mfhiller (talk) 13:20, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

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