So Long As We Represent

I See The Situation Of Man In The World Of Planetary Technicity Not As An Inexitricable And Inescapable Destiny, But I See The Task Of Thought Precisely In This, That Within Its Own Limits It Helps Man As Such Achieve A Satisfactory Relationship To The Essence Of Technicity. National Socialism Did Indeed Go In This Direction. Those People, However, Were Far Too Poorly Equipped For Thought To Arrive At A Really Explicit Relationship To What Is Happening Today And Has Been Underway For The Past 300 Years.

From Our Human Experience And History, At Least As Far As I Am Informed, I Know That Everything Essential And Great Has Only Emerged When Human Beings Had A Home And Were Rooted In A Tradition. Today's Literature Is, For Instance, Largely Destructive.

Body', 'soul', And 'spirit' May Designate Phenomenal Domains Which Can Be Detached As Themes For Definite Investigations; Within Certain Limits Their Ontological Indefiniteness May Not Be Important. When, However, We Come To The Question Of Man's Being, This Is Not Something We Can Simply Compute By Adding Together Those Kinds Of Being Which Body, Soul, And Spirit Respectively Possess--kinds Of Being Whose Nature Has Not As Yet Been Determined. And Even If We Should Attempt Such An Ontological Procedure, Some Idea Of The Being Of The Whole Must Be Presupposed.

The Possible Ranks Higher Than The Actual.

The Will To Mastery Becomes All The More Urgent The More Technology Threatens To Slip From Human Control