Why should nurses care if Heidegger was a Nazi? Pragmatics, politics and philosophy in nursing

Nursing and nurses have become reliant on qualitative methods to understand the meaning of nursing care, many nurse researchers use Heideggerian Interpretivist phenomenology approaches. Often these are unaware Martin Heidegger's role in German National Socialist Party 1930s his allegiance fascist ideology. We ask: can a bad person good ideas? In line with pragmatic thinkers such as Richard Rorty, we argue that instead value judgements people their ideas, should consider ideas product historical/social political time space. urging critical engagement, for Husserlian approach. opposition interpretivist approach, which hegemony day is integral phenomena being studied, propose more expressive, collaborative engagement using descriptive approach would serve better encouraging how used by groups people, some might be advantaged others disadvantaged. Our conclusion separation from social context dangerous, nurses, including researchers, must research influence influenced agendas.