antw. Re: Chapter 45: Body & Soul

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

David Morris schrieb:

> Scott,
>
> Please please please expand on this quote.

>  It sounds very Platonian (if 
> that is an adjective).
>  Plato is always a good jumping point.


                    can you explain what you mean by this? kai
     

> >From: "Scott Badger"
> >
> >Terrance:
> > >   They become artificial objects posing as humans, a poor
> > >   substitute for humanity, yet fully acceptable in the
> > >   decadent world or in Fausto's terms, a world "moving towards
> > >   non-humanity." This non-humanity is not, as so many have
> > >   argued, simply Pynchon's Borgs or Terminators,
> > >   human/machines, humans with plastic parts.  The process is
> > >   not mechanical and the humans are not machines, but are
> > >   humans in a world that no longer recognizes or in is the process > >   
> >of losing their humanity.

> >By way of Mr. Albert:
> >"*Pure* Civilization [as a succession to Culture], as a historical process, 
> >consists in a progressive exhaustion of forms that have become inorganic or 
> >dead."    Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West