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Thomas de Zengotita

Modernism Revisited: Artistic Works, Academic Disciplines, Divided Minds

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“If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in darkness, cold, and silence… Life knows us not and we do not know life—we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after…

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A Phenomenological Foundation for Human Ethics: An Essay in Philosophical Anthropology

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A Limit to Contingency  In The Last Utopia (2012), Samuel Moyn famously argued that “human rights” as a principle transcending the prerogatives of nation-states did not actually emerge until the 1970s.  The idea in this “pure” form only appeared then because it stood out in that context as “the God that did not fail while other political ideologies…

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