Status Updates From The Life of the Mind

Da muchas vueltas a las mismas ideas y no las justifica muy bien.

She compares the stories of exile and promised land with Aeneas to Rome, the Tribes of Israel to Canaan, and the colonists in the United States.

Political liberty consists in safety, or at least in the opinion of being safe. The citizen’s political liberty is that tranquility of mind that comes from the opinion that everybody has of his safety and
in order to be in possession of this liberty, the government must be such that one citizen could not afraid of another.

Do we stand in the very twilight of the most monstrous transformation our planet has ever undergone? ... Do we confront the evening of a night which heralds another dawn? (Heidegger, Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy)

If somebody appears who...wishes to abolish the old values or virtues, he will find that easy enough provided he offers a new code and he will need relatively little force and no persuasion...to impose it. The more firmly men hold to the old code the more eager will they be to assimilate themselves to the new one. Which means that...the readiest to obey will be those who were the most respectable pillars of society.

By shielding people against the dangers of examination, it teaches them to hold fast to whatever the prescribed rules of conduct may be at a given time in a given society. What people then get used to is not so much the content of the rules, a close examination of which would always lead them into perplexity, as the possession of rules under which to subsume particulars.

"All scientific truths are factual truths... only factual statements are scientifically verifiable. Thus, the statement 'a triangle laughs' is not untrue, but meaningless whereas the old ontological demonstration of the existence of God, as we find it in Anselm of Canterbury, is not valid and in this sense not true, but it is full of meaning."