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9. Apr. 2024 · The hybris of Prometheus, who thrust his hand into the heavens in order to make the divine powers subject to man, carries with it his fall. What, then, becomes of the chatter about "undying achievements"?” ― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
16. Apr. 2024 · That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.” ― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
9. Apr. 2024 · Oswald Spengler, German philosopher whose reputation rests entirely on The Decline of the West (2 vol., 1918–22), a major contribution to social theory. He believed that the West had already passed through the creative stage of ‘culture’ and that the future could only be a period of irreversible decline.
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Vor 5 Tagen · Technics is precisely the means by which modern humanity, apart from God, and by its own devices, seeks to achieve desired beneficial ends for itself. In modernity, several autonomous spheres of existence seek to dominate exclusively the whole of life, and technics is one of them. Once modern humanity discarded the Medieval worldview, with its ...
18. Apr. 2024 · Abstract. Following Hannah Arendt’s insights into the affinities between Marxism and the philosophy of life, this article reconstructs a theoretical position that we propose to call ‘vitalist Marxism’. This position conceives of life not only as an essential foundation of the production process, but also as a critical resource ...
Vor einem Tag · Origin of the expression "The Storm Fiend" — Heading to Book II Chapter IX of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus, 1898 illustration by E. J. Sullivan The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other ...
17. Apr. 2024 · Henri Bergson (born Oct. 18, 1859, Paris, France—died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris) was a French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favour of values of motion, change, and evolution.
