Donald Phillip Verene

(1937) Historian

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Donald Phillip Verene is a historian.

Quick Facts About Donald Phillip Verene

Born: October 24, 1937
Profession: Historian

About Donald Phillip Verene

[Wikidata] American philosopher (1937-)... | [Wikipedia] Donald Phillip Verene is an American [philosophy]] professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University.

Quotes by Donald Phillip Verene

Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there…

Donald Phillip Verene

Consciousness

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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…

Donald Phillip Verene

Absolute power

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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…

Donald Phillip Verene

Allegiance

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Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the…

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Age

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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…

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Doe

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The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as…

Donald Phillip Verene

Agendas

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