Sublime

Kant ouvre déjà, sur un plan théorique, la voie à cette nouvelle solution, en faisant de l’homme un être radicalement fini, définitivement coupé du divin. Avec

The subject of time is no longer a judging God, but a free human being that projects itself towards the future. Time is not fate but projection. The human relation with the future is determined not by thrownness but by feasibility.

Eine Gesellschaft, die kein Verständnis von einem höheren Gesetz beziehungsweise dessen Gesetzgeber hat und in der sich niemand vor einer höheren Macht verantworten muss, landet immer in der Ausbeutung.

Bare life makes all teleology vanish—every in-order-to [jedes Umzu] that would give reason to remain healthy.

The miracle, she argues, lies in human natality itself: the new beginning that human beings are to realize on the basis of being born. Wonder-working belief is replaced by heroic action, the native obligation of mankind.

what you do really matters. You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity, taking the entire burden of responsibility for how the human race behaves.

Marx: “Men make their own biosphere, but they do not make it just as they please.”