Posted in Sunday Quotes, tagged Martin Heidegger, Merold Westphal on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘The task of God is to make science possible, and metaphysics will treat any God who shirks this responsibility as an illegal immigrant in the brave new world of modernity.’
- Merold Westphal
‘Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor [...]
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Heidegger, Merold Westphal, ontotheology on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Merold Westphal, writing in the first chapter of his Transcendence and Self-Transcendence on the same topic I posted on here - but oh, so much better. He argues that, in Heidegger’s critique, both premodernity and modernity share a common technological character, finding diverse ways of accomplishing the same goal: to put the world, including God or whatever [...]
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