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  • An inspiration for Schopenhauer's view that ideas are like inert objects is George Berkeley (1685-1753), who describes ideas in this despiritualized way in his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) [Section 25].

    Arthur Schopenhauer Wicks, Robert 2007

  • One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach.

    Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart) 1978

  • I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness.

    Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart) 1978

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum's reference to your work as 'despiritualized Tarkovsky.'

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum's reference to your work as 'despiritualized Tarkovsky.'

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I think you’re explanation for American Jewish support of Israel too far grounded in a Buberesque mood and sometimes fails to see the despiritualized but prioritized view that American Jews have of the State of Israel.

    Is Israel All That Matters? | Jewschool 2004

  • April 20th, 2009 at 6: 29 pm Said: also what exactly about mccains platform or political history makes him any different than obama or bush. policy wouldn't really look that much different if mccain would have won: huge giveaways to aig and banks with no oversight. it's funny how one could advocate grassroots wealth distribution and rail against the business and government elites of a foreign country while worshipping the ground and eating every little lie put forth by government and their government lackies here. the author and reactionaries on this forum are concluding the same thing that people deserve a fair shot and shouldn't be screwed over by government but for some reason no one can come to the conclusion that corporate political parties and their submissive military are the root of the problem. it's because we all have certain blindnesses in the way we see the world. some can't admit that international business has used our country as a front to rape and pillage individuals of other countries and others are just so happy that the nightmare of the last eight years is over they can't see that obama is just a logical extension of dubya's policies. that his highminded platitudes for change are just marginal amendments to policy while continuing the systemic imperialism of the system, and both sides would rather use this forum as an outlet of their anger at their consumerist despiritualized simulated commercial for a life than a way to find common ground.

    Ryan Tomayko 2009

  • April 20th, 2009 at 6: 29 pm Said: also what exactly about mccains platform or political history makes him any different than obama or bush. policy wouldn't really look that much different if mccain would have won: huge giveaways to aig and banks with no oversight. it's funny how one could advocate grassroots wealth distribution and rail against the business and government elites of a foreign country while worshipping the ground and eating every little lie put forth by government and their government lackies here. the author and reactionaries on this forum are concluding the same thing that people deserve a fair shot and shouldn't be screwed over by government but for some reason no one can come to the conclusion that corporate political parties and their submissive military are the root of the problem. it's because we all have certain blindnesses in the way we see the world. some can't admit that international business has used our country as a front to rape and pillage individuals of other countries and others are just so happy that the nightmare of the last eight years is over they can't see that obama is just a logical extension of dubya's policies. that his highminded platitudes for change are just marginal amendments to policy while continuing the systemic imperialism of the system, and both sides would rather use this forum as an outlet of their anger at their consumerist despiritualized simulated commercial for a life than a way to find common ground.

    Ryan Tomayko sfbayview.com 2009

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