Saturday, February 10, 2024

East Coast nihilism: a sign of the times


“It would seem that each culture must be understood in the light of what it looks up to; that to which it looks up may appear to it to become reflected in a particular kind of human being, and that kind of human being may rule the society in question in broad daylight; it is this special case of rule which Aristotle regarded as the normal case.”


The City and Man. Paperback ed. University of Chicago Press 1978, p.34.

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