Donald Phillip Verene: Quotes about nature

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“The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 179

“The self as master is born in the realization that nature can be commanded. Real mastery requires a means. The self develops technique—the idea of work put into the hands of another agency held in bondage to the self.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 153

“The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.”

Donald Phillip Verene

Source: Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (1997), p. 188