In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the publi… - Merold Westphal
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the publi…
- Merold Westphal
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into en… - Merold Westphal
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into en…
In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it … - Merold Westphal
In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it …
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this… - Merold Westphal
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this…
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has … - Merold Westphal
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has …
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