"Only God Can Save Us" |
Friday Aug 28 2009
By Jim Selman | BioIt was said that the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s last words were “Only God can save us.” He was, perhaps, one of the deeper thinkers (at least in modern times) on the question of who we are and what is really going on. As far as I know, he wasn’t religious. So what he meant by these words, if indeed he said them, is open to question. My view is that he was talking about the fact that all human beings live in interpretations of “reality”—cultural and linguistic inventions—and that humanity is now ‘trapped’ in an interpretation that has no back door. That is, the ‘Cartesian’ worldview that now dominates the globe is so powerful that, like a black hole,[Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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