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Für die ethischen Vorstellungen, die in den letzten 2000 Jahren in Europa gewachsen sind, ist der Mensch in erster Linie ein vernünftiges, kein körperliches
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
The Straussian Moment
gwern.netWhereas we had once been able to imagine Western civilization as a universalist project delivering rational enlightenment to humankind,1 with Hegel’s thought representing a particular highpoint, the sheer destructiveness of World War I shattered this self-image, revealing that it might only run skin deep.
Jamie Aroosi • The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaard, Marx, and the Making of the Modern Subject
“A selection is now taking place among the forms and habits of higher morality, whose goal can be none other than the downfall of baser moralities.”