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| Why does Ferry refuse to follow the path of those who say we need to continue Nietzsche's project and the projects of his disciples? |
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| no, you are left with hammer remains, amori fati, which might be a new idol and philosophy is not about accepting things as they are |
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| Why does Ferry refuse to follow those who say that we need to reject Nietzsche and go back to the past to find another world to replace this one? |
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| Humans are historic which means they cannot go back to the past. |
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| How does Ferry carefully express his intended use of Enlightenment ideas to avoid accepting things as they are post-Nietzsche? |
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| We cannot ~go~ back to the Enlightenment but that doesn't mean we cannot rethink the ideas back then. He wants to recover transcendence in terms of THIS world |
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| How does Heidegger express the "world of technology as a profound threat to a Fundamental promise of democracy |
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| democracy was that we could make and control our future.Technology lost our purchase on history and made history meaningless thus causing a threat |
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| Coinciding with the birth of modern science, what are the two forms of humanity's mastery over the world? |
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Intellectual: knowledge about the world "modern physics"
Practical: will of man "the world is full of resources." |
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| In the 17th and 18th centuries, what was still seen as the end to be served by human mastery over nature? |
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optimism of human progress
liberation from religious superstition and religious authority
liberation from the ills of nature and servitude of nature |
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| Science in the 17th and 18th centuries rested on what two convictions expressed in enlightenment optimism in human progress? |
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| higher objective like liberty and happiness |
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| What is "the last step" fro science to technology? |
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| What is the definition in the world of progress in a world of generalized competition and what are the marks of this progress manifested in the world? |
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| to advance and change and its just to stay in the race. power over nature is automatic, |
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| What is the purpose of human mastery now? |
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| How does Ferry see this as a new determinism? |
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| progress has become automated and more of regulatory process than an active decision automated ans dispossessed |
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| How has a sense of doubt arisen in the technical world and why has fear become " the characteristic of democratic emotion"? |
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| humanity's future is not guaranteed |
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| What does ferry mean when he says that our priority in our present world is to "take the reins" |
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| Always ready to focus on a particular threat because we have the ability to blow up the planet and no one is flying this plane |
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| What is the first possible way proposed for philosophy in the contemporary period and why does ferry reject it? |
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Turn our back on philosophy
Ferry doesn't like that because that means yielding to the cynicism to amor fati |
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| What is the way that Ferry proposes and his reasoning for doing so? |
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| transcendence within ourselves from a force outside ourselves self reflection, live with love humanize the divine, decoration of human rights salvation enlarged thought wisdom |
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