Posted on 10/31/2005 9:42:27 AM PST by OKSooner
Can someone help me out here?
There's a German term that describes the occurrence of things in their time. This is NOT to be confused with "Zeitgeist", which describes a collective mindset or "spirit" of the times, for example certain political movements, but THINGS.
For example Volkswagens, Zeppelins, Telephones, Internet, etc. THINGS that occur at their appointed place in time.
One of those funny questions ...
Rechtzeitig?
farfehrnugen? j/k
Sorry, this concept is not part of my cognative weltanschauung.
A word means what I take it to mean at the moment I take it to mean it.
Achtung!
"Invade Poland"?
Well, the opposite of this is an anachronism: something out of its timeframe. Dunno if that helps, though.
Everything I ever needed to know about German Philosophy I learned from Martin Heidegger.
From Wikipedia - Heidegger joined the Nazi Party on May 1, 1933, before being appointed the rector of the university in Freiburg. He resigned from the rectorship in April 1934. During this time Heidegger's former teacher Husserl, who was Jewish, was denied the use of the university library at Freiburg because of the racial cleansing laws issued by the Nazi Party. Heidegger also removed the dedication to Husserl from Being and Time when it was reissued in 1941. Heidegger later claimed that this was due to pressure from his publisher, Max Niemeyer. Additionally, when Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics (lectures originally given in 1935) was published in 1953, he declined to remove a reference to the "inner truth and greatness of this movement [die innere Wahrheit und Größe dieser Bewegnung]," i.e. National Socialism. Instead of deleting or altering the text, he merely added the parenthetical gloss, "(namely, the confrontation of planetary technology and modern humanity) (nämlich [die] Begegnung der planetarisch bestimmten Technik und des neuzeitlichen Menschen)." Many readers, notably Jürgen Habermas, came to interpret this ambiguous remark as evidence of his continued commitment to National Socialism.
Heidegger put the "vague" in Bewegnung.
I think the opposite of anachronistic is synchronistic; therefore, I am ...
Gesellschaft?
Gemeinschaft?
Sein und Zeit ? ( Being and Time ) Hedegger..
Gesundheit! Oh, pardon me. I thought you sneezed.
gesundheit!
Ask Zelig. He was always there.
gudenslick?
no, I think that's Vaseline?
Famous Dutch Philosopher: Joran Asman :)
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