The Wisdom of the Sands by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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The ultimate, deeply-felt summing-up of the author's adventure and his philosophy of existence. determining a barren region prince as his protagonist and narrator, he provides the undying difficulties of humanity opposed to the austere heritage of the wasteland. The booklet abounds in vibrant images of wilderness lifestyles, forays and sandstorms, mirage-born insanity, beleaguered towns, caravans going their perilous methods. it can be learn only for the sake of those scenes, so incomparably defined, or learn as an allegory of guy and his grandeur, of his ends and the signifies that could lead on to them and, such a lot essentially of all, of the ethical and non secular values that unite the person to God.

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On Taylor’s account, then, Descartes opts for a new practice of enquiry, fighting vigourously (1) to establish a new radical interiority utterly severed from external involvement; (2) to objectivise the body; (3) to instrumentalise and disenchant materiality more generally; and (4) to redefine rationality, rejecting the goal of encountering the highest principles of order, choosing instead to consider as rational only those (fully internal) representations which have been constructed according to proper canons of procedural rationality.

I wish now to analyse certain difficulties which afflict the contemporary practice. In order to do so, I shall analyse three tensions felt within the current frame which indicate the way in which the inhabitants of the disengaged age have become problems unto themselves as a result of the profound influence of the habit of isolation discussed earlier. 24 This commitment, however, often collides with the official stories told by the disengaged stance—so much so, in fact, that even the most outspoken defenders of disengaged approaches to human action end up feeling trapped between competing commitments.

It is this situation which, Taylor argues, has led to the proliferation of moral and spiritual options of different kinds—more or less transcendent, more or less buffered—within modernity. 39 He can Friendship and Isolation 31 see the unease that has accompanied life within the disengaged age and see it as evidence that the buffered self is, in a sense, unable to think certain meaningful features not simply of reality, but of human life itself. , features that remain essential to human flourishing even in the disengaged age) one can begin to have the sense that disengagement has forced the human frame into a contorted position.

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