Sublime

The human individual is not free; it is subjected to God. It does not project itself into the future. It does not project its time. Rather, it is thrown into the end, into the final end of world and time.

If late-modern achievement society has reduced us all to bare life, then it is not just people at the margins or in a state of exception—that is, the excluded—but all of us, without exception, who are homines sacri.

Indeed, as Youngmin Kim has said, “[T]he moral perfection of the individual self or the perfection of one’s own community is not so much an aspect of politics; in a sense, it is politics.”

Gogolook

Goffman’s social world is one of which a thesis that Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics considers only to reject is true: the good for man, consists in the possession of honor, honor being precisely whatever embodies and expresses the regard of others.

Heidegger insisted it makes more sense to see objects such as this hammer – and the wider world – in the context of their relevance for our everyday lives. He argued this is not only how we see the world, it is how the world really is. Heidegger contended that, even for philosophers and scientists, such a stance leads to a more accurate appraisal

We live in an era of wealth and overabundance, but how bleak it is. There is “neither art nor philosophy,” Fukuyama says. All that’s left is the “perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”