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To act nobly, a noble heart is not enough. It needs help from a sharp mind.

— Leon Kass Looking for an Honest Man (2009)

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Could technology, understood as the disposition and activity of mastery, turn out to be a stumbling block in the path of the master himself?

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I have come to believe that looking honestly for the human being, following the path wherever it leads, may itself be an integral part of finding it.

Looking for an Honest Man (2009)

"Soul" names the unified powers of aliveness, awareness, action, and appetite that living beings all manifest.

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