The ideal of community: belief without proof (Arendt, 1929)
Though this equality is only implicit in the earthly city it permits us to understand interdependence, which essentially defines social life in the worldly community. This interdependence shows in the mutual give and take in which people live together.12 The attitude of individuals toward each other is characterized here by belief (crederer), as distinguished from […]
“Reality of our century is technology” (László Moholy-Nagy, 1922)
Reality is the measure of human thinking. It is the means by which we orient ourselves in the Universe. The actuality of time ―the reality of this century― determines what we can grasp and what we cannot yet understand. And this reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction, and maintenance of machines. To […]
Nietzsche on socialism and the principle of equality
Socialism ― or the tyranny of the meanest and the most brainless, ―that is to say, the superficial, the envious, and the mummers, brought to its zenith, ―is, as a matter of fact, the logical conclusion of “modern ideas” and their latent anarchy: but in the genial atmosphere of democratic well-being the capacity for forming […]
Balzac on equality between human beings (La Duchesse de Langeais, 1834)
A quote from Honoré de Balzac about equality between human beings
