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Donald Phillip Verene Biography

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Donald Phillip Verene is an American author born on October 24, 1937. His works primarily focus on history, literature, and philosophy, known for his in-depth research and unique insights.

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Book:Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

“The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.”

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Book:Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”

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Author:Donald Phillip Verene

“No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.”

Choices Opportunity Technology Solutions Harm Disaster Allegiance New Technology Swearing

Author:Donald Phillip Verene

“The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.”

Book States Jobs Term Advice Absolutes Absolute Power Leviathan Power Of Nature

Book:Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

Source: Moral Philosophy and the Modern World

“Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.”

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Author:Donald Phillip Verene

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Born: October 24, 1937
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