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AKA: | Hubert Dreyfus |
Birthday: | October 15, 1929 |
Birthplace: | Terre Haute, Indiana, United States |
Death: | April 22, 2017 |
Educated At: | Harvard University |
Field of Study: | Harvard University |
Hobbies: | Old Cars |
Manner of Death: | Cancer |
Nationality: | United States Of America |
Occupations: | University Teacher, Philosopher |
Profesisonal Interests: | Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Literature,Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Hermeneutics, 20th-century European Philosophy, Martin Heidegger |
Total quotes: 19
Hubert Dreyfus
BirthnameAKA: Hubert Dreyfus
Birthday: October 15, 1929
Birthplace: Terre Haute, Indiana, United States
Death: April 22, 2017
Educated At: Harvard University
Field of Study: Harvard University
Hobbies: Old Cars
Manner of Death: Cancer
Nationality: United States Of America
Occupations: University Teacher, Philosopher
Profesisonal Interests: Phenomenology, Existentialism, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Literature,Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Hermeneutics, 20th-century European Philosophy, Martin Heidegger
Total quotes: 19
“We're like the man who climbed on a chair and declared he was a little closer to the moon.”
Tagged:
Progress
“In losing his identity, and having no perspective of his own, Pip can see that all the meanings in the world are meanings taken from one perspective or another. He can see the selfishness involved in thinking of these meanings as ultimate or final precisely because he can see that ultimately each is a perspectival rendering of something that has no deeper truth. This becomes clear in the fascinating chapter on the doubloon.”
Tagged:
Perspectivism
“Reconfigurers are either gods or madmen. But which of these is only determined in retrospect. If the new god actually works to reconfigure the world, and the practices organize themselves around its way of life, then the god becomes an exemplar of a whole new understanding of everything that matters and of how to act. The chances are strongly against this, however. There are always powerful conservative forces in the culture that tend to destroy the new understanding or to take it over and mobilize it for the current order. If the new world fails, therefore, it is necessarily measured by the current understanding, and against this norm it can look ridiculous.”
Tagged:
Revolution
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