modern man

is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question.

For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence... modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question. Michel Foucault

is man who has lost the option of silence.

Modern man has lost the option of silence. (William S. Burroughs)

is not the man who tries to discover himself, his secrets, his hidden truth, but as he who tries to invent or produce himself.

Modern man, for Baudelaire, is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets and his hidden truth... he is the man who tries to invent himself. This modernity does not 'liberate man in his own being'... it compels him to face the task of producing himself. ((Foucault 'what is enlightenment' 7)

is one who suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the earth as brothers and sisters.

When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact. . . that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance... We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters. . . Martin Luther King, Jr.

is that which has become the tool of his tools.

Men have become the tools of their tools. (Henry David Thoreau)

is one who says: Let others praise ancient times... I am glad I was born in these.

Let others praise ancient times... I am glad I was born in these.

is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We feel it as a sort of salvation when we obey and do our duty.

Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

is descended from a wormlike creature, but it shows more on some people.

EVOLUTION All modern men are descended from a wormlike creature, but it shows more on some people

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modern man