Tag: Philosophy
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Robert Spaemann on Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Robert Spaemann (1927–2018) is a German Catholic Philosopher who engaged in his political philosophy with an early critic of the Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. What are the arguments in this discussion?
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Meaning or Presence? Time in Contemporary Culture
A new way of experiencing time is emerging in contemporary culture, influenced by globalization and technology. People seek to deepen and expand a sense of presence, and what fades away is a corner stone of modernity, the Cartesian subject: the expanded present challenges the idea of a subject who acts based on past experiences and…
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Why Heterology?
There is a short and a long answer to this question: The short answer is captured in Gregory Bateson’s simple question: “What pattern connects the crab to the lobster, and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them to me? And me to you?” Heterology looks for the patterns between things that don’t…