Heidegger Critique

Heidegger Kritik

1NC Shell 1-8

Science and technology objectify 9

Objectification produces an inhuman world 10-11

Heidegger perspective promotes human survival 12-13

Heidegger's perspective protects environment 14-16

Releasement protects environment 17-18

Releasement enhances freedom 19

Releasement isn't passive 20-21

Heidegger not a mystic 22-23

Answers to Heidegger's Nazism 24-26

Heideggers's thoughts liberates 27-29

Rethinking needed 30-33

Economics 34

Energy 35

Enviromentalalism 36-37

Humanism 38-40

Instrumental Rationality 41

Managerial thinking 42-43

Moral/Ethical Appeals 44-45

Science 46-48

Technology 49-52

Willfullness 53

Affirmative Frontline 54-59

Heidegger's thought not environmental benign 60

Heidegger anti-democratic 61

Heidegger was an authoritarian 62

Heidegger's thought 63

Heidegger's thought totalitarian 64-65

Heidegger's thought nihilistic 66-67

Heidegger's Nazism is intrinsic to his thought 68-73

Heidegger embraces destructive irrationalism 74-77

Heidegger's thought politically reactionary 78-79

Heidegger's thought destroys freedom 80-81

"Releasement" undesirable 82-83

Heidegger's ontology is uninsightful 84

Heidegger exaggerates "being" 85-87

Permutation: Kritik and Act 88

Heidegger's discourse flawed 89

Enlightenment/Modernity 90-91

Humanism 92-93

Moral/Ethical Appeals 94

Science 95

Technology 96-100

KRITIK - 1NC SHELL

A. THE PREVAILING WORLDVIEW THREATENS SURVIVAL

1. PRESENT PRACTICES HAVE PRODUCED ECOLOGICAL DISASTER

Ladelle McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy, Northeast Missouri State, HEIDEGGER AND THE EARTH, 1992, p.2.

Thinking today must concern itself with the earth. Wherever we turn - on newsstands, on the airwaves, and in even the most casual of conversations everywhere - we are inundated by predictions of ecological catastrophe and omnicidal doom. And many of these predictions bear themselves out n our own experience. We now live with the ugly, painful, and impoverishing consequences of decades of technological innovation and expansion without restraint, of at least a century of disastrous "natural resource management" policies, and of more than two centuries of virtually unchecked industrial pollution - consequences that include the fact that millions of us on any given day are suffering, many of us dying of diseases and malnutrition that are the results of humanly produced ecological devastation; the fact that thousands of species now in existence will no longer exist on this planet by the turn of the century; the fact that our planet's climate has been altered, probably irreversibly, by the carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons we have heedlessly poured into our atmosphere; and the mind-boggling fact that it may now be within humanity's power to destroy all life on this globe.

2. MODERN SCIENCE DESTROYS THE EARTH AND DEBASES LIFE.

Arthur Herman, Professor of History, George Mason, THE IDEA OF DECLINE IN WESTERN HISTORY, 1997, p.336-7.

The disasters "of world history in this century," Heidegger explained to his audiences, were the result of the Western "will to will." This is modem man's "unconditional objectification of everything present." Like his Frankfurt School contemporaries, he saw this relentless will to will symbolized by modem science. The consequences are horrifying: "the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the standardization of man, the preeminence of the mediocre . . . the darkening of the world." He was forced to conclude: "The spiritual decline of the planet is so far advanced that the nations are in danger of losing the last bit of spiritual energy that makes it possible to see the decline . . . and appraise it as such."

3. TECHNOLOGY LEADS TO NIHILISM

Arthur Herman, Professor of History, George Mason, THE IDEA OF DECLINE IN WESTERN HISTORY, 1997, p.337.

According to Heidegger, the Western rational animal had evolved into the mechanical laboring animal. Technology forces man and nature to work to the same rationalist timetable, the same "unreasonable demands" modem man makes of himself. The earth, once the sacred source of man's sense of being, was