“In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.” PhilosophyFactsHandsChristianityModernWesternBlockConstructionStumblingStumbling BlocksWestern PhilosophyModern Philosophy Book:An essay on Christian philosophy Source: An essay on Christian philosophy
“In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.” WorldCountryPhilosophyTodayAmericaFormUniverseResultsIntellectualProfitYieldConstructionElsewhereTechnologicalStrictAssuredProceduresLogisticsAnglo Saxon Author:Martin Heidegger
“Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast, modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.” ArtPhilosophyModernMankindAncientConstructionContrastReservedSpecialistsArt Of LivingJargonModern PhilosophyAncient Philosophy Author:Pierre Hadot
“Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.” HumansPhilosophyBeautifulViolenceFiguresGeniusDestructionCriminalsConstructionSublimeMurdererMonstrousMisreading Author:Richard Marshall
“The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and amulets, we have nothing to do. The theoretical is divided into the lineal and dogmatic. The dogmatic is nothing more than the summary of the metaphysical doctrine taught by the Cabalist doctors. It is, in other words, the system of the Jewish philosophy.” KindTwoPhilosophyTaughtDoctorsJewPracticalsDoctrineEngagedDividedConstructionMetaphysicalTheoreticalDogmaticSummaryTalismansCabalAmulets Author:Albert Mackey