Donald Phillip Verene Quotes

• The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Independent, Technology, Promise

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Media, Doe, Form

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Laughter, Play, Lust

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.119, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Technology, Opportunity, Choices

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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• The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Jobs, Book, Advice

  Donald Phillip Verene (2013). “Moral Philosophy and the Modern World”, p.134, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• La filosofía contemporánea ilustra el dictamen de Hegel de que la filosofía es su propio tiempo aprehendido en el pensamiento, pues en nuestra época la filosofía cede al impulso técnico objetivador y pierde su antigua tarea de perseguir el ideal socrático de la sabiduría de la vida examinada.

  Donald Phillip Verene

  Philosophy, Yield, Age

  "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

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