Merold Westphal quotes
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“To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.”
-- Merold WestphalSource : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.35, Penn State Press
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“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”
-- Merold WestphalSource : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press
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“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”
-- Merold WestphalSource : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
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“It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.”
-- Merold WestphalSource : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press
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“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).”
-- Merold WestphalSource : "Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society". Book by Merold Westphal, 1987.
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“We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.”
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“Our task is to widen our circle of compassion to include all living beings and all of nature”
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Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press
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“Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.”
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“Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”
Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.307
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