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Donald Phillip Verene on Philosophy

born 1937 United States

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Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel’s dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life.

Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997)

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