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Morris Berman

(1944) Historian

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Morris Berman is a historian.

Quick Facts About Morris Berman

Born: August 3, 1944
Profession: Historian

About Morris Berman

[Wikidata] American historian... | [Wikipedia] Morris Berman is an American historian and social critic. He earned a BA in mathematics at Cornell University in 1966 and a PhD in the history of science at Johns Hopkins University in 1971. Berman is an academic humanist cultural critic who specializes in Western cultural and intellectual history.

Quotes by Morris Berman

The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but,…

Ascent

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“[I]nfinity is not part of the real world.”

Real world

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Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to…

Awareness

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“An idea is something you have; an ideology is something that has you”

Ideas

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The nation no longer stands for the enlightenment tradition, but rather for military-political hegemony and the total commodification of life.

Buddhism

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...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the…

Age

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“Negative identity is a phenomenon whereby you define yourself by what you are not. This has enormous advantages, especially in terms of…

Define yourself

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Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

Gravity

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“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in…

De Tocqueville

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