#basic writings

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The essence of action is accomplishment. To accomplish means to unfold something into the fullness of its essence, to lead it forth into this fullness.

Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” Basic Writings (revised & expanded edition)

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Thinking does not overcome metaphysics by climbing still higher, surmounting it, transcending it somehow or other; thinking overcomes metaphysics by climbing back down into the nearness of the nearest. The descent, particularly where man has strayed into subjectivity, is more arduous and more dangerous than the ascent.

Martin Heidegger, “Letter on Humanism,” Basic Writings (revised & expanded edition)

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“Essentially, all the philosophers of ancient China addressed the same problem: how is man to live in a world dominated by chaos, suffering, and absurdity? Nearly all of them answered with some concrete plan of action designed to reform the individual, to reform society, and eventually to free the world from its ills...Chang Tzu’s answer to the questions is: free yourself from the world.” - Burton Watson

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Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Man and the Conduct of Life

Basic Writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Man and the Conduct of Life This volume is part two of a two-volume set. It may be purchased separately or in conjunction with volume one. Includes substantial selections from the Second Part of the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. Pegis's revision and correction of the English Dominican Translation renders Aquinas' technical terminology consistently as it conveys the directness and simplicity of Aquinas' writing; the Introduction, notes, and index aim at giving the text its proper historical setting, and the reader the means of studying St. Thomas within that setting.

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"Homelessness is coming to be the destiny of the world."

— Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism" (translated by Frank A. Capuzzi in collaboration with John Glenn Gray and David Farrell Krell), Basic Writings (edited by David Farrell Krell)