Status Updates From Het leven van de geest

Only updating since I was scrolling through my “currently reading”s. This is one of the most naturally dense books I’ve ever read. I tried reading it last year but shamelessly gave up. But I’m sure there’s really important stuff in here. I think I’d be lucky to finish it by like 2028.

Terug beginnen vanaf laatste paragraaf

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)