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The dark, chthonic gods of the original inhabitants are banished to the hell into which the earth is transformed under the religions of Indra and Zeus, with their worship of sun and light. #DoE
December 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The dark, chthonic gods of the original inhabitants are banished to the hell into which the earth is transformed under the religions of Indra and Zeus, with their worship of sun and light. #DoE
Its hatred is directed at the image of the vanquished primeval world and its imaginary happiness. #DialecticofEnlightenment
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Its hatred is directed at the image of the vanquished primeval world and its imaginary happiness. #DialecticofEnlightenment
The self which learned about order and subordination through the subjugation of the world soon equated truth in general with classifying thought, without whose fixed distinctions it cannot exist. #DoE
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The self which learned about order and subordination through the subjugation of the world soon equated truth in general with classifying thought, without whose fixed distinctions it cannot exist. #DoE
The superseding of the old diffuse notions of the magical heritage by conceptual unity expresses a condition of life defined by the freeborn citizen and articulated by command. #DoE
December 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The superseding of the old diffuse notions of the magical heritage by conceptual unity expresses a condition of life defined by the freeborn citizen and articulated by command. #DoE
The generality of the ideas developed by discursive logic, power in the sphere of the concept, is built on the foundation of power in reality. #DoE
December 8, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The generality of the ideas developed by discursive logic, power in the sphere of the concept, is built on the foundation of power in reality. #DoE
He knows that his loyal servants are watching to keep away wild animals and to drive away thieves from the enclosures which they are there to protect.' #DoE
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
He knows that his loyal servants are watching to keep away wild animals and to drive away thieves from the enclosures which they are there to protect.' #DoE
In the evening, having looked out from his castle to see the countryside lit up by a thousand fires, he can go to his rest in peace. #DoE
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
In the evening, having looked out from his castle to see the countryside lit up by a thousand fires, he can go to his rest in peace. #DoE
A property owner like Odysseus 'controls from a distance a numerous, finely graded personnel of ox herds, shepherds, swineherds, and servants. #DoE
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A property owner like Odysseus 'controls from a distance a numerous, finely graded personnel of ox herds, shepherds, swineherds, and servants. #DoE
Power and labor diverge. #DialecticofEnlightenment
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Power and labor diverge. #DialecticofEnlightenment
The supreme god among gods came into being with this civil world in which the king, as leader of the arms-bearing nobility, tied the subjugated people to the land while doctors, soothsayers, artisans, and traders took care of circulation. #DoE
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The supreme god among gods came into being with this civil world in which the king, as leader of the arms-bearing nobility, tied the subjugated people to the land while doctors, soothsayers, artisans, and traders took care of circulation. #DoE
The songs of Homer and the hymns of the *Rig Veda* date from the time of territorial domination and its strongholds, when a warlike race of overlords imposed itself on the defeated indigenous population. #DoE
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
The songs of Homer and the hymns of the *Rig Veda* date from the time of territorial domination and its strongholds, when a warlike race of overlords imposed itself on the defeated indigenous population. #DoE
The distance of subject from object, the presupposition of abstraction, is founded on the distance from things which the ruler attains by means of the ruled. #DoE
November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The distance of subject from object, the presupposition of abstraction, is founded on the distance from things which the ruler attains by means of the ruled. #DoE
Under the leveling rule of abstraction, which makes everything in nature repeatable, and of industry, for which abstraction prepared the way, the liberated finally themselves become the 'herd', which Hegel identified as the outcome of enlightenment. #DoE
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Under the leveling rule of abstraction, which makes everything in nature repeatable, and of industry, for which abstraction prepared the way, the liberated finally themselves become the 'herd', which Hegel identified as the outcome of enlightenment. #DoE
Abstraction, the instrument of enlightenment, stands in the same relationship to its objects as fate, whose concept it eradicates: as liquidation. #DoE
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Abstraction, the instrument of enlightenment, stands in the same relationship to its objects as fate, whose concept it eradicates: as liquidation. #DoE
The fake myth of fascism reveals itself as the genuine myth of prehistory, in that the genuine myth beheld retribution while the false one wreaks it blindly on its victims. #DialecticofEnlightenment
November 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The fake myth of fascism reveals itself as the genuine myth of prehistory, in that the genuine myth beheld retribution while the false one wreaks it blindly on its victims. #DialecticofEnlightenment
The horde, a term which doubtless is to be found in the Hitler Youth organization, is not a relapse into the old barbarism but the triumph of repressive *égalité*, the degeneration of the equality of rights into the wrong inflicted by equals. #DoE
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The horde, a term which doubtless is to be found in the Hitler Youth organization, is not a relapse into the old barbarism but the triumph of repressive *égalité*, the degeneration of the equality of rights into the wrong inflicted by equals. #DoE
The unity of the manipulated collective consists in the negation of each individual and in the scorn poured on the type of society which could make people into individuals. #DoE
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The unity of the manipulated collective consists in the negation of each individual and in the scorn poured on the type of society which could make people into individuals. #DoE
But because that self never quiet fitted the mold, enlightenment throughout the liberalistic period has always sympathized with social coercion. #DoE
October 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
But because that self never quiet fitted the mold, enlightenment throughout the liberalistic period has always sympathized with social coercion. #DoE
Each human being has been endowed with a self of his or her own, different from all others, so that it could all the more surely be made the same. #DoE
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Each human being has been endowed with a self of his or her own, different from all others, so that it could all the more surely be made the same. #DoE
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. #DoE
October 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The blessing that the market does not ask about birth is paid for in the exchange society by the fact that the possibilities conferred by birth are molded to fit the production of goods that can be bought on the market. #DoE