Thanks for this discussion of an event that has interested me since I first learned of it. Bemusing, how temperament determines philosophy, rather than the other way around. There is a Calvinist strain in Heidegger's part of Germany, though he was from a conservative Catholic family. It was a patchwork region of Catholicism and a Protestantism not too far away from Switzerland. His background of time and place lends credence for me to the notion that the extremes converge. He was at once revolutionary and reactionary.
Wow, as someone who's always looking for complex philosophy explained in a more beginner way, this channel always has very interesting discussions. I agree- the split has always been something "mythological" almost as if the greek's wrote it.
Thank you so much for giving some airtime to Cassirer's incredibly encyclopedic philosophy that has been so neglected. I think also of Hans Blumenberg, Paul Ricoeur and Jürgen Habermas. Not that I fully agree with each of these writers (I'm a Lacanian psychoanalyst, so yeah). But it's so rare to hear contemporary thinkers having the patience to discuss anything but their specialty and little sense of the truly historical moments and settings at play (that's the Marxist in me now talking). So thank you again for doing so!
