abandonment of phrenesis, so to speak. So, you know, I look at it really since the enlightenment, but do you see it as a sort of a more or less linear trend? Or do you see that there have been certain periods, for example, the Industrial Revolution or even today where we've been hastier in our sort of jettison of these humanities or of these non-scientific ways of spending our time and thinking about the world? I think I am an empiricist. I am into science in so many ways. And I think natural sciences have been spectacularly successful since the enlightenment. Yet there is a fundamental mistake in thinking that we humans can be our not our bodies, but our shared world and our culture can be studied with the same technique and the same tools as you study bacteria or asteroids. I think you have to have a difference between the clear difference between the natural world and you can call the universe and our world, the human world and what Heidegger, who is one of my sort of the people I'm (19/57)
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