 | Samuel Totten - 2003 - 240 pages
...humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the subject of discourse. However much we are affected by the things of the...us only when we can discuss them with our fellows" (p. 2). Jacob Bronowski, a philosopher, is another of my "virtual teachers." In his extraordinary TV... | |
 | Kathleen A. Brehony - 2003 - 292 pages
...the banality of evil as she documented the Nuremberg trials is an unforgettable work. Arendt wrote, "We humanize what is going on in the world and in...and in the course of speaking of it, we learn to be human."31 Cathy Lewis, my cohost for our public radio program The An of Living, and I interviewed Fritz... | |
 | Nicholas Gane - 2004 - 224 pages
...just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the object of discourse . . . We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves...and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human. The Greeks called this humanness which is achieved in the discourse of friendship philanthropia,... | |
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However much we are affected by the things of the world, however deeply they may stir and stimulate us, they become human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. 
