But Rousseau, Locke, and Darwin all seem to agree that distinctively human or polymorphous eros — the various forms of love — are unnatural, as is being moved
deeply by consciousness of death.
Not exact matches
And if the pure subject of
consciousness is the deepest center of nineteenth century thinking and vision, now that subject is violently disrupted, as most
deeply understood
by Nietzsche himself, and in the wake of that disruption there has occurred the advent of a truly anonymous
consciousness and society.
Nothing else is so
deeply Augustinian in modern thinking and in the modern
consciousness itself, and if Augustine discovered the subject of
consciousness by way of his renewal of Paul, it was Paul who discovered the profoundly internal divisions and dichotomies of
consciousness and self -
consciousness.
It is precisely those who most
deeply refuse our world and the forward movement of history and
consciousness who are now driven to a primordial way, a way that masks the profane reality of time and death
by apprehending it as being at one with a primordial unity.
Sperry has been
deeply influenced
by the role of
consciousness as a cause and the role of values in human life.
So we have to trust our intuitions, which are
deeply colored
by our biases about when life starts, when
consciousness begins, and who is or is not conscious.