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Whereas Marx's vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner's
man
makes his own freedom.
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Copernicus and Darwin undermined
man
's image of himself as the 'measure of all things'. Newton provided him with a new hope … that of '
man
as the measurer of all things'. Thus the possibility was revealed to
man
, who had been disinherited from being at the center of the universe, that he might be able know how to work himself back there. Science, at the same time it destroyed his ontological security, gave him the tools for reapproaching Eden.
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Nietzsche [claims] that the scientist is at best an instrument, a useful slave: he does not command or decide, he is not a whole
man
.
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Life is more than thought: what a
man
feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's fullness than subsequent reflection on their significance. Both Stirner and Nietzsche have elaborated Faust's opening speech in which he bemoans his wasted years in academia: this speech is Goethe's own impeachment of Kant and Hegel. Philosophy proceeds always under the risk of making a fetish of thinking.
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The act of greatest subversion … is the one of indifference. A
man
, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his, or its, convictions. … There is a degree of complicity, or mutual respect, between the believer and the
man
who attacks his beliefs (the revolutionary), for the latter takes them seriously.
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Dostoevsky's underground
man
… observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. … He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.
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If
man
is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, … all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.
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Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the ordered, bourgeois world of the 'last
man
'—he who will pay any price in tedium for comfort and the absence of tension.
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The 'I think, therefore I am' of Descartes, the 'I feel, therefore I am' of late eighteenth century Romanticism, and the 'I possess therefore I am' of bourgeois
man
are dogmas, partial at that, incorporated to define a being that is incapable of defining itself.
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The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which
man
is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.
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By punishing the criminal the moral
man
hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.
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Dostoevsky … impeaches Christ through the mouth of the Grand Inquisitor: 'it was pitiless of thee to value
man
so highly'. This Christ has no answer to the world of politics, of rational action, of knowledge. He is utterly Nietzschean in his intention not to pity, but to respect.
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Man
at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
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The priest who has lost the resilience of youth cannot be helped; his polymorphously playful and imaginative energies have been emasculated by a long conditioning to the ways of the old order; he would be liberated into a sea of undifferentiated boredom and anxiety. Only the
man
whose desires and passions are intact has a future.
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Man
is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.
John Carroll
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
John Carroll
Born:
1944
(age 81)
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