Engagement Quote by David E. Cooper

There are really three players: 'absolutists', for whom it is possible to describe reality as it anyway is; 'constructivists' or 'humanists', for whom there…

— David E. Cooper

My 'heroes' are those - like Chuang Tzu and Heidegger - who recognize that the world of experience is a human world, but recognize…

— David E. Cooper

For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of…

— David E. Cooper

Chuang Tzu and Heidegger both emphasise the virtue of 'spontaneity' - a sort of mindful responsiveness to things as they are. It's this notion,…

— David E. Cooper

Like Nietzsche, Heidegger also gave up on the prospect that schools and universities would nurture the kind of reflective openness to the way of…

— David E. Cooper

In the doctrine of the world and humankind as 'will to power and nothing else', Heidegger identified not an antidote to nihilism, but the…

— David E. Cooper

One thing that attracts me in Daoism and Heidegger is a delicate combination of recognizing deep differences between human being and any other kind…

— David E. Cooper

I was keen to dispel a familiar misunderstanding: that existentialists somehow relish the alienation of human beings from the world. This may have been…

— David E. Cooper

“One of the ways that Heidegger radicalizes Kant is by showing the “subject” to be active in multiple ways rather than limiting it to…

— Lee Braver

“It is perhaps permissible here to draw attention to a distinction made by Martin Heidegger, who speaks of the duality of calculating and reflective…

— Pope Benedict XVI

For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

— Anonymous

Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as…

— Robert Barry