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Martyn has made the best of his limited possibilities: he has become a politician.
“If reading the Bible intently and seriously gives breadth and depth to one’s mind (and it certainly does), why not also the Mengzi? or the Bhagavad Gita? or Chūshingura? There is more than one “great conversation” in the world, and more than one way to furnish a soul.”
― Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
― Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
“The most radical and the only secure form of possession is destruction, for only what we have destroyed is safely and forever ours.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“By keeping death in mind, one passes into a state of gratitude, of appreciation for the countless givens of existence. This is what the Stoics meant when they said, “Contemplate death if you would learn how to live.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“A denial of death at any level is a denial of one’s basic nature and begets an increasingly pervasive restriction of awareness and experience. The integration of the idea of death saves us; rather than sentence us to existences of terror or bleak pessimism, it acts as a catalyst to plunge us into more authentic life modes, and it enhances our pleasure in the living of life.”
― Existential Psychotherapy
― Existential Psychotherapy
“Yet, as Heidegger helps us to see, the true danger posed by companies like Facebook and Google is not that they violate our privacy, but that they redefine what we think “privacy” means. Facebook and Google—not to mention tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Tinder, and Twitter—all defend their privacy-endangering practices by simply pointing out that they are only giving users what users want.”
― Nihilism
― Nihilism
Jan’s 2025 Year in Books
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