Status Updates From Kondycja ludzka

"Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required, and this presence needs the formality of the public, constitued by one‘s peers, it cannot be the casual, familiar presence of one‘s equals or inferiors"

"To be free meant both not to ge subject to the necessity of life or to the command of another AND not to be in command oneself. It meant neither to rule or to be ruled. (…) this equality of the political realm (…) meant to live among (…) peers, and it presupposed the existence of 'unequals' who (…) were always the majority of the population"

„the time-honored resentment of the philosopher against the human confition of having a body is not identical with the ancient contempt for the necessities of life; to be subject to necessity was only one aspect of bodily existence, and the body, once freed of this necessity, was capable of that pure appearance the Greeks called beauty“

„We, who are earth-bound creatures and
have begun to act as if we were dwellers of the universe, will forever be unable to understand (…) about the things which nevertheless we are able to do (…) thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible (…)“

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