Alexander Nehamas Quotes

According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation of nature came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.

Alexander Nehamas

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• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  

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• I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Holland, very popular, and it's a big opportunity to become the first person that holds two world titles in two different sports.

  

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• According to Heidegger, the blind desire for manipulation of nature came about because modernity turned reason—which was, for the ancients, and even for the medievals, a source of valuable goals—into a purely instrumental faculty.

  

  Alexander Nehamas
  • Goals
  • Source
  • Manipulation