So after I finished Heidegger’s Being and Time I went to the leading “Evangelical spokesman” to see what he said. Long story short, if you go to www.dougwils.com and type in “Heidegger” you will get three pages of “see how stupid they are” or “muh Nazis!” What you won’t get in a sustained, mature interaction.
The only time he remotely gets close to understanding Heidegger is when he is citing Leithart’s discussion of Westphal’s discussion of Heidegger. And it’s clear that Wilson is out of his depth, which he kind of admits.
(Is he speaking in tongues in this post?)
Here he shows himself mentally incapable of dealing with a godly and renowned philosopher like Merold Westphal. (Mind you, I have some differences with Westphal. I think he too closely identifies ontotheology with metaphysics).
Sometimes I think Wilson equates intelligence with cleverness. He is like the fatter and more modern incarnation of Gorgias.
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