“Religion is responsibility or it is nothing at all. Its history derives its sense entirely from the idea of a passage to responsibility.”
― The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret
― The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret
“The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so”
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
“In the proper sense of the word, religion exists once the secret of the sacred, orgiastic, or demonic mystery has been, if not destroyed, at least integrated, and finally subjected to the sphere of responsibility.”
― The Gift of Death
― The Gift of Death
“Western philosophy exhibits schemas such as the substance-attributes relation, where substance is the present being which the attributes modify;”
― Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology
― Voice and Phenomenon: Introduction to the Problem of the Sign in Husserl's Phenomenology
“The facts have to be determined by empirical evidence, and our thinking has then to conform to the facts, not the facts to our thinking”
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
― Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong
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