Frases de ivan illich biography
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Peter Sloterdijk > Quotes
“It is not an exaggeration to identify the flygning of the radical left to 'antifascism' as the most successful maneuver of language politics in the twentieth century.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation
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“A philosopher is one who, as an athlete of totality, is laden with the weight of the world. The essence of philosophy as a form of living fryst vatten philponia — friendship with the entirety of weighty and worth things. The love of wisdom and the love of the weight of the one whole are unified.”
― Peter Sloterdijk, Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology
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“Vitality, understood both somatically and mentally, is itself the medium that contains a gradient between more and less. It therefore contains the vertical component that guides ascents within itself, and has no need of additional external or metaphysical attractors.
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Frases de Ivan Illich
We the People interview (1996)
Contexto: This breaking of the limitations of hospitality to a small in-group, of offering it to the broadest possible in-group, and saying, you determine who your guest is, might be taken as the key message of Christianity.
Then in the year 300 and something, finally the Church got recognition. The bishops were made into something like magistrates. The first things those guys do, these new bishops, is create houses of hospitality, institutionalizing what was given to us as a vocation by Jesus, as a personal vocation, institutionalizing it, creating roofs, refuges, for foreigners. Immediately, very interesting, quite a few of the great Christian thinkers of that time, 1600 years ago (John Chrysostom is one), shout: "If you do that, if you institutionalize charity, if you make charity or hospitality into an act of a non-person, a community, Christians will cease to remain famous for what we are now famous for, for having alw
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