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“In this distinctive world, elusive quantities flash at the edge of conventional logic.”

Book:Bubbles: Spheres I

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Peter Sloterdijk

Peter Sloterdijk is a German philosopher born on June 26, 1947. Known for his unique philosophical thoughts and profound insights into social culture, his works cover a wide range of fields including ethics, aesthetics, and sociology, making a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical world. more

“In the foam worlds, however, no bubble can be expanded into an absolutely centered, all-encompassing, amphiscopic org; no central light penetrates the entire foam in its dynamic murkiness. Hence the ethics of the decentered, small and middle-sized bubbles in the world foam includes the effort to move about in an unprecedentedly spacious world with an unprecedentedly modest circumspection; in the foam, discrete and polyvalent games of reason must develop that learn to live with a shimmering diversity of perspectives , and dispense with the illusion of the one lordly point of view. Most roads do not lead to Rome-that is the situation, European: recognize it.”

Logic Foam

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“As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls.”

Philosophy Logic

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“The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and whose heroes are eo ipso not humans themselves, but rather the topoi and spheres as whose function humans flourish, and from which they fall if their unfolding fails.”

Philosophy Logic Topoi

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