Tag: Philosophy
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We’re No Angels!
What is the use of those high philosophical peaks on which no human being can settle and those rules which exceed our practice and our power? It is not very clever of [man] to tailor his obligations to the standards of a different kind of being. May we not say that there is nothing in […]
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What is Man? What is Your Life?
What is man? A vessel that the slightest shaking, the slightest toss will break… A body weak and fragile, naked, in its natural state defenceless, dependent upon another’s help and exposed to all the affronts of Fortune.” (Seneca, quoted in Alan de Botton’s The Consolations of Philosophy) The New Testament says something similar; the difference […]