The Crisis of Legitimacy of Absolutes

There is a hunger for something that anchors you in this world, he says. Heidegger has said homelessness characterizes the modern world. Some people now as previously, they look to God and others to state authority. But there's an old poet who said you can chase nature out the door with a pitchfork. The idea that we have a nature that returns some sense of fixity or shape to the world remains important.

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