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1714cc8 Repetition plus translation plus generalization results, with the correct calculation, in clarification. If there is such a thing as 'progress in religion', it can only manifest itself as increasing explicitness. Peter Sloterdijk
9f88ba3 From the perspective of the radicals, the habitus basis of human existence is, as a whole, no more than a spiritually worthless puppet theatre into which a free ego-soul must be implanted after the fact, and through the greatest effort. If this fails, one experiences an effect in most people that is familiar from many athletes and models: they make a promising visual impression - but if one knocks, no one is at home. According to these doct.. Peter Sloterdijk
af51e48 It is not only through their complexity that the immune systems confuse their owners' longing for security; they cause even more perplexity through their immanent paradox, as their successes, if they become too thorough, are perverted to become their own kind of reasons for illness: the growing universe of auto-immune pathologies illustrates the dangerous tendency of the own to win itself to death in the battle against the other. It is no c.. Peter Sloterdijk
209568b The notion that property is the means to all other means was ruled out by the new radicals. The deep seated ressentiment towards private property, indeed towards anything private, blocked the conclusion that follows from any impartial examination of wealth-producing and freedom-favouring mechanisms: an effective world improvement would call for the most general possible propertization. Instead, the political metanoeticians enthused over gen.. world-improvement Peter Sloterdijk
8adc230 Talvez, por menos oportuno que possa parecer, se devesse dizer mais uma vez: no mundo que sucedeu a graca, a arte foi o asilo das excecoes que restaram. Peter Sloterdijk
5a77bc7 Not until Plato's Republic was a type of politician created who would no longer serve as a loudspeaker, but rather as a receiver of quiet ideas - with little success, as we know, as the introduction of the quiet politician is yet to come. It would be a contradiction in terms, for politics, as the art of what is possible in noise, remains assigned to the loud side of the phonotope Peter Sloterdijk
8b8ea82 If we extrapolate this position as a constant factor at work in the background character of twentieth-century culture, it is clear why a system like Steiner's has always risked being marginalized. After all, in many ways it is the epitome of uncoolness. Coolness will have nothing to do with improving life and the world. As soon as a dogooder enters the room, the coolness enthusiasts leave. KRIES: Has that changed today? SLOTERDIJK: Today's .. Peter Sloterdijk
e56cb18 Being-'subject' means taking up a position from which an actor can make the transition from theory to practice. This transition usually takes place once an actor has found the motive that liberates them from hesitation and disinhibits them for action. Peter Sloterdijk
a8bfbf9 Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: 'a creator shall you create [...] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement'. This rule contains no less than Nietzsche's theology after the death of God: there will continue to be a God and gods, but only humanity-immanent ones, and only to the extent that there are creators who follow on.. humanity god artistry death-of-god immanence nietzsche thought-provoking creation Peter Sloterdijk
5040065 Statements such as 'There are systems, there are memories, there are cultures, there is artificial intelligence'76 depend on the statement 'There is information.' Also the statement 'There are genes' can only be understood as a product of the new situation--it indicates the leap of the principle of information into the sphere of nature. On the basis of these gains in concepts that are capable of seizing hold of reality, the interest in trad.. Peter Sloterdijk
9cba5aa The human being does not hop out of the magician's hat in the way that the ape climbs down from the tree; he also does not emerge from the hand of a creator who surveys everything in advance with his foreknowledge. He is the product of a production that is not itself a human being. The human being was not yet what he would become before he became it. Peter Sloterdijk
a8065ce The domestication of the human being is the great unthought; it is that before which humanism from antiquity to the present day has averted its eyes. To appreciate this is sufficient to find oneself in deep water. Where we can no longer stand, the evidence rises over our heads that the educational taming and befriending of the human being could never have been accomplished with letters and words alone. To be sure, reading [Lesen] was a grea.. lektionen lesen selektionen Peter Sloterdijk
b36baa1 It is not an overstatement if one characterizes this revision of the false metaphysical classification of beings as the contemporary gigantomachy that reaches deeply into ingrained human self-relations. Very many view this revision suspiciously as an expropriation of the self and condemn it as technological devilry. The uncanniness of the process is not to be denied, precisely because it impresses by means of its results. The humanistically.. Peter Sloterdijk
de2b3c2 With this project, Plato bears witness to an intellectual unrest in the human park, which could never again be entirely pacified. Ever since the Politikos and the Politeia [The Republic], there have been discourses in the world that speak of the human community as of a zoological park that is at the same time a theme park. Keeping human beings in parks or cities from now on appears to be a zoopolitical task. Whatever purports to be a reflec.. platonic-zoo Peter Sloterdijk
3b88c5d The anti-technological hysteria that holds broad sections of the Western world in its grip is a product of metaphysics' decay: it is betrayed by the fact that it clings to false classifications of beings in order to revolt against processes in which the overcoming of these classifications has already been carried out. It is reactionary in the essential sense of the word, because it expresses the ressentiment of obsolete bivalence against a .. Peter Sloterdijk
04e3627 If these civilizing potentials were to be generalized, then the homeotechnological era would be distinguished by the fact that in it spaces of leeway for errancy become narrower while spaces of leeway for gratification and positive association grow. Advanced biotechnology and nootechnology groom a refined, cooperative subject who plays with himself, who is formed in association with complex texts and hyper-complex contexts. Here emerges the.. Peter Sloterdijk
c28af66 The Enlightenment, finally, invented progressive 'history' as an inner-worldly purgatory in order to develop the conditions of possibility of a perfected 'society'. This provided the required setting for the aggressive social theology of the Modern Age to drive out the political theology of the imperial eras. What was the Enlightenment in its deep structure if not an attempt to translate the ancient rhyme on learning and suffering - mathein.. enlightenment philosophy theology enlightenment-quotes optimization political-theology purgatory Peter Sloterdijk
298edfc In his field, and with his means, Rilke carries out an operation that one could philosophically describe as the 'transformation of being into message' (more commonly, 'linguistic turn'). 'Being that can be be understood is language', Heidegger would later state - which conversely implies that language abandoned by being becomes mere chatter. chatter heidegger language linguistic-turn rilke thing-poem Peter Sloterdijk
5b52ea7 We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization. rodin romanticism ruins sculpture rilke thing-poem Peter Sloterdijk
5ee5f2d The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of a manifold thought undeterred by the nihilistic pathos that involuntarily accompanied a reflection disappointed by the monological metaphysics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains once again what this liveliness is about: "God is dead" is affirmed as the good news .. plurality-of-spheres post-metaphysics Peter Sloterdijk
96fc093 What early Christianity meant by 'faith' (pistis) was initially nothing other than running ahead and clinging to a model or idea whose attainability was still uncertain. Faith is purely anticipatory, in the sense that it already has an effect when it mobilizes the existence of the anticipatory towards the goal through anticipation. In analogy for the placebo effect, one would have to call this the movebo effect. faith philosophy anticipation theology Peter Sloterdijk
e8cbf83 aquellos grandes cuerpos politicos que antes llamabamos pueblos y hoy, a razon de una dudosa convencion semantica, denominamos "sociedades". Cuando decimos esta palabra solemos pensar en las poblaciones de los estados-nacion modernos, por tanto en unidades politicas grandes y muy grandes con volumenes demograficos de entre unos cuantos millones y mil millones de miembros. [...] el animal fabuloso "sociedad", [...] lo aceptamos como una cosa.. pueblo nación sociedad Peter Sloterdijk
34b58e6 As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them command.. Peter Sloterdijk
f509231 A mi entender, hay que concebir los macrocuerpos politicos que llamamos sociedades en primer lugar como campos de fuerzas integradas por el estres, mas precisamente como sistemas de preocupaciones que se autoestresan y que se precipitan siempre hacia adelante. Estos sistemas solo existen en la medida que consiguen mantener su 'tonus' especifico de intranquilidad mientras los temas cambian diariamente y anualmente. Desde este punto de vista .. sociedad teoría-de-los-macrocuerpos filosofia política realidad Peter Sloterdijk
159e59f La primera forma de falta de libertad la experimentamos como opresion politica, la segunda como una opresion impuesta por aquella realidad que, con razon o sin, llamamos externa. [...] un tercer frente de la falta de libertad [...] resulta de la esclavizacion de los hombres por falsas imagenes de si mismos. [...] una revuelta antitiranica representa una "cooperacion de estres maximo" entre los dominados con la finalidad de eliminar una carg.. estrés filosofia política realidad revolución tiranía libertad Peter Sloterdijk
02f6111 El secreto de la modernidad se esconde en su capacidad de reclutar personas de cualquier origen y cualquier confesion para que formen parte de la mas grande de las campanas militares, la campana por el alivio progresivo del estres anonimo surgido de la opresion de lo real. individualisml libertad modernidad occidente Peter Sloterdijk
4b6df04 Eighty-five years after the storms of steel of the German-French fronts, sixty-five years after the peak of the Stalinist mass exterminations, fifty-five years after the liberation of Auschwitz, and just as long after the bombardments of Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, the swinging back of the Zeitgeist to the preference for middling circumstances is to be understood as a tribute to normalization. In this regard, it has an unconditionally.. zeitgeist Peter Sloterdijk
0da3ca5 Regarding the Platonic zoo and its new establishment, what is at issue is thus to learn for all the world whether between the population and the director ship there is merely a difference of degree or a difference in species. According to the first assumption, the distance between those who tend human beings and their fosterlings would obviously only be a contingent and pragmatic one--in this case, one could attribute to the herd the capaci.. herds Peter Sloterdijk
e51c14a Written culture itself, up to its recently implemented universal literacy, has had sharply selective effects. It has riven its host societies and formed a divide between literate and illiterate human beings, whose unbridgeability almost attained the firmness of a species differentiation. If one wished, despite Heidegger's dissuasions, to speak anthropologically again, then the human beings of historical times could be defined as the animals.. selection willed Peter Sloterdijk
64ea4ff I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in the present case, as an aesthetic movedness. The torso, which has no place that does not see me, likewise does not impose itself - it exposes itself. It exposes itself by testing whether I will recognize it as a seer. Acknowledging it as a seer essentially means 'believing' in it, where believing, as noted above, .. rilke thing-poem Peter Sloterdijk
399722f Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an ostentatious amusement among princely and mercantile art patrons and their masterly suppliers (who established a first 'art system'), into a national, a European, indeed a planetary matter. In order to spread from the few to the many, the renaissance had to discard its humanistic exterior and reveal itself as .. enlightenment philosophy rennaisance Peter Sloterdijk
4743c9f In timp ce economia obisnuita, dictata de "erosul inferior", se bazeaza pe afectele vointei de a avea, economia thymotica se sprijina pe mandria celor care se simt liberi sa daruiasca. ... utilizarea thymotica a bogatiei in lumea anglo-saxona, si mai ales in SUA, a devenit un fapt civilizator garantat, in timp ce pe continentul european - din cauza unor traditii bazate pe increderea in stat, pe subventionism si pe mizerabilism - n-a reusit .. Peter Sloterdijk
abc66ef His concept of allochrony - initially introduced shyly as 'untimeliness', then later radicalized to an exit from modernity - is based on the idea, as suggestive as it is fantastic, that antiquity has no need of repetitions enacted in subsequent periods, because it 'essentially' returns constantly on its own strength. In other words, antiquity - or the ancient - is not an overcome phase of cultural development that is only represented in the.. time antiquity cultural-time ancient friedrich-nietzsche modernity Peter Sloterdijk
7143883 This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to a far-reaching idea: that it is the fate of Europeans to develop life and forms of life according to and alongside the Christian definitions of life and forms of life. rennaisance Peter Sloterdijk
4a82ef9 Nietzsche is no more or less than the Schliemann of asceticisms. In the midst of the excavation sites, surrounded by the psychopathic rubble of millennia and the ruins of morbid palaces, he was completely right to assume the triumphant expression of a discoverer. ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
0744ec0 In mediul celor avuti, insatiabili, "interesul pentru arta nu e, de regula, decat fata duminicala a lacomiei"." Peter Sloterdijk
4eef681 Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction of Olympian clarity. In the decisive passage he discusses the practice forms of that life-denial or world-weariness which, according to Nietzsche, exemplifies the morphological circle of sick asceticisms in general: 'The ascetic [of the priestly-sick type] treats life as a wrong pat.. priest ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
4542865 The ascetic planet he sights is the planet of the practising as a whole, the planet of advanced-civilized humans, the planet of those who have begun to give their existence forms and contents under vertical tensions in countless programmes of effort, some more and some less strictly coded. When Nietzsche speaks of the ascetic planet, it is not because he would rather have been born on a more relaxed star. His antiquity-instinct tells him th.. practising asceticism ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
240ee56 Din marele elan al transformarii egalitariste a umanitatii nu a ramas, pana la urma, mult mai mult decat autoprivilegierea nedisimulata a functionarilor - ca sa nu mai vorbim de paralizia, resemnarea si cinismul pe care le-a lasat mostenire. comunism Peter Sloterdijk
95a46bd The extension of the moral-historical perspective makes the meaning of the thesis of the athletic and somatic renaissance apparent. At the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the phenomenon labelled the 'rebirth of antiquity' in the language regulations of art history entered a phase that fundamentally modified the motives of our identification with cultural relics from antiquity, even from the early classical period. H.. asceticism ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
17f53d9 The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically powerful. Its counterpart is the informalization of spirituality - accompanied by its commercialization in the corresponding subcultures. The threshold values for these two tendencies provide the i.. spirituality athletics popular-music sport ascetics Peter Sloterdijk
d89020e In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something, let alone a great deal, of themselves. In humanistic epochs, by contrast, man is considered the being responsible for causing and doing everything - but consequently no longer has the right to make little or nothing of himself. Whether people now make nothing or much of themselves, they commit - according .. god ascetics secular Peter Sloterdijk
13d0e7f Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing. life-lessons ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche life-philosophy Peter Sloterdijk
b59cbb4 A massa nao reunida e nao reunivel na sociedade pos-moderna nao possui mais, por essa razao, um sentimento de corpo e espaco proprios; ela nao se ve mais confluir e agir, nao sente mais sua natureza pulsante; nao produz mais um grito conjunto. Distancia-se cada vez mais da possibilidade de passar de suas rotinas praticas e indolentes para um agucamento revolucionario. Peter Sloterdijk
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