“It is the first sign that animal has become man when his actions are no longer directed to the procurement of momentary wellbeing but to enduring wellbeing, that man has thus become attuned to utility and purpose: it is then that the free domination of reason first breaks forth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, 94
Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
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“It is the first sign that animal has become man when his actions are no longer directed to the procurement...
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philosophybits: “The world is all that is the case.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the...
