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To: Neocon who wrote (585)	10/19/1999 6:55:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3246

It's been decades since I was a philosophy major, but my sense of things is that Jaspers has become far more important recently. His strong advantage is that, unlike Heigegger, Jaspers is an elegant writer. But his influence is growing later in the century. Heidegger's work has already inspired some very different trends that are rich and unique, especially in the work of Michael Foucault. Another point in Heidegger's favor comes on the subject of technology. He dealt with the issue in at least one major essay and at many other points in his work. That has inspired some interesting thoughts on a subject of vital importance to the 20th Century. Although I'm not directly familiar with Buber's work, it strikes me that he approaches the philosophical tradition from the side -- from a religious tradition where the ideas gain traction only to directly affect academic philosophy after many years. I'm even less familiar with Maritain and Gilson. So far, I haven't noticed Thomism as a vital force in modern thought, although I don't doubt that it could become, once again, prominent within a certain religious tradition. But even there, it doesn't seem a prime force within the current century. Another name from religious philosophical tradition that might deserve the same sort of consideration given the others is that of Reinhold Niebuhr. What's interesting about any of those names is that their thought -- outside of the seminaries or their equivalent -- often has greater effect on other disciplines. Echoes of their work will often show up in literary criticism, sociology, or one of the cross-disciplinary fields that have become popular in the US.