To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God. — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment.… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining… — Merold Westphal Copy Share Image
