Heidegger's tryst with Nazism is surely enough for all his opinions to be invalidated. A man who associated with something as grossly inhumane as Nazism is surely unfit to theorize about humanity.
An alternate perspective the above fact about heidegger will surely arouse moralistic opinions in almost all; from the stoics to the most objective materialists. It is this: that Nazism far from being inhumane is the most humane. Humane, maybe not in the traditional sense of being compassionate, but in a more literal sense of representing the essence of humanism. From the traditional sense of the word we have such usages as, "the boy treated the dog humanely by feeding it", and the negative, "boy treated the dog in humanely by hurting it." But we now know having tasted the fruit of right and wrong that is scientific enlightenment, that this traditional usage is outdated. Cruelty is as human as kindness. So it could be said, "humanely tortured" as we used to say, "humanely treated". So it cannot be held against heidegger that he as inhumane. He was just justhumane.
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