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Des heideggériens, à commencer par Hubert Dreyfus, ont écrit plus tard sur l’Internet comme l’innovation technologique qui révèle le plus clairement ce qu’est la technique1049. Son infinie connectivité promet de rendre le monde entier stockable et disponible mais, ce faisant, prive les choses de toute espèce d’intimité et de profondeur. Tout, à com

Aude de Saint-Loup • Au café existentialiste : La liberté l être & le cocktail à l abricot (French Edition)

In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more

Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays

How close are we to creating artificial intelligence? | Aeon Essays

David Deutsch aeon.co

Within the humanities, some of the key theorists drew inspiration from the writings published at midcentury by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who had analyzed, with stunning lucidity, the body’s influence upon even our most rarefied cogitiations.

David Abram • Becoming Animal

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

Stanford scholar upends interpretation of philosopher Martin Heidegger

Annie Atura news.stanford.edu

As science forms an indivisible whole, one may say that there are no longer, strictly speaking, scientists, but only unskilled hands doing scientific work, cogs in a whole their minds are quite incapable of embracing.

Simone Weil • Oppression and Liberty

Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far Right?

Julian Göpffarth opendemocracy.net

Although we process information, we do not do it the way that computers do.” Even to ask the question, he argues, of “whether a computer has captured the essence of human reason is a diversion, if not a trap, because the real question — do humans understand the essence of humans? — cannot be answered or resolved by technology.”