Michael Schaffner
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Michael Schaffner
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
From the collected letters of CS Lewis
It hurt me to think that we never acknowledge the absolutely mysterious character of Nature, but always speak so confidently of explaining her, whereas all that we have really done is to go into fuller and more complicated descriptions, which only make the mysterious more mysterious than ever.
Albert Schweitzer
As great and significant as the progress of natural science has been, the materialistic philosophy bound up with it will be of no help. It will always display the same poverty and the same radical errors…
Materialism will remain the philosophical religion of truncated intellects.
Albert Schweitzer
“The continually increasing, huge mass of knowledge which he faces shatters his self-confidence. He can no longer assimilate all the new discoveries being proclaimed. Although he does not understand them, he must take them as matters of fact. Given this situation in face of scientific truth, he is confirmed in the feeling that in matters of thought
... See moreAlbert Schweitzer
“I am completely opposed to the spirit of this age, because it promotes the neglect of thought…
Today there is not only a neglect of thought but an actual distrust or depreciation of it. The organized political, social, and religious groups of our time are bent on inducing the individual to take up uncritically ready-made beliefs rather than invitin
Albert Schweitzer
In the realm of AI ... machines are made to behave in wondrous ways, often sufficient to dazzle even the most experienced observer.
Article
Joseph Weizenbaum, “ELIZA: A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communication between Man and Machine,” Communications of the ACM 9, no. 1 (January 1966).