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Leave passivity behind. You should put work into understanding what's required of you. This is why it's so easy to fall back to passivity, but there are things that must be done just because it's the right thing to do. Doing anything other than that is akin to committing philosophical suicide.


I don’t think I have an ethical duty to parse obscurantist nonsense.


There's nothing obscure about that. You might be out of the habit of consuming challenging material, but it's definitely not a good response to react reflexively with contempt for something that takes a moment of thought to understand. There's already enough vulgar anti-intellectualism in society right now without adding to it.


If that's obscurantist nonsense you aren't going to get far with Heidegger.


Contempt prior to investigation ought not be a point of pride, I think.




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