/pt/ – Petrarchan

Is Heidegger the soggy middle of the phenomenological tradition? Brentano is sharp, focused, and actually uncovers the interesting philological problem of "being" in Aristotle. Meinong is inventive and opens up a whole field to consider. Arendt is clear, courageous, and seems to have had exceptional foresight on some important issues. Gadamer is actually a good classicist, he's also perfectly clear, and he came out of the same milieu and managed to survive the Nazis without getting tainted by Nazism. In the middle of it all is Martin. Old Marty. Martin with the dogshit pseudo-classicism. Martin with the bullshit neologisms that he reinvents every 2 years like Scientology textbooks. Martin who tried to debate Ernst Cassirer like a livestreamer but just left the senior scholar confused. Martin who gave away his lunch money to Sartre. Martin who never really read anybody else's work, just his own ideas appearing in others' books. Martin who never finished the *Being and Time* project. Martin who thought cities (like Munich I guess) were too spooky scary for Germans. Martin the country bumpkin reciting poetry to the campfire with marching band oompa oompa music to accompany. Martin the cheater. Martin the pissy little traitor. Martin the antisemite who thought that he could use the Nazis to advance and backstab every other philosopher in Germany. Martin who didn't deserve to take the job of ACTUAL LITERAL PATRON SAINT OF EUROPE Edith Stein / Teresa Benedicta. Martin who didn't have the "audacity-toward-being" or whatever to just ski directly into a tree trunk.