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| CLASSIC |
MODERN |
| There is a nature of man, a definite structure of existence that puts limits on perfectibility |
The nature of man can be changed either through historical evolution or through revolutionary action |
| Philosophy is the endeavor to advance from opinion about the order of man and society to science |
No Science in such matters is possible, only opinion; everybody is entitled to his opinions; we have a pluralistic society |
| Society is Man written large |
Man is society written small |
| Man exists in erotic tension toward the divine ground of his existence |
He doesn't; for I don't; and I'm the measure of man. |
| Man is disturbed by the question of the ground; by nature he is a questioner and seeker... |
Such questions are otiose (Comte); don't ask them, be a socialist man (Marx) |
| Education is the art of periagoge, of turning around (Plato) |
Education is the art of adjusting people so solidly to the climate of opinion prevelant at the time that they feel no desire to know |
| The process in which metaleptic reality becomes conscious and noetically articulate is the process in which the nature of man becomes luminous to itself as the life of reason |
Reason is instrumental reason. There is no such thing as a noetic rationality of man |
| Through the life of reason man realizes his freedom. |
Plato and Aristotle were fascists. The life of reason is a fascist endeavor |
| taken from Modern Age 1973 "On Classical Studies"; Eric Voegelin |