David E. Cooper Quotes
It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.
Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.
To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.
In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.
The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.
The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.
In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.
