"But I think what Wheeler and other commentators on Ruskin have not quite recognized is this: The essential task of Ruskin’s life was the prophetic discernment of the right and wrong, the healthy and unhealthy, forms of human making, which for him was the most essential kind of human labour. Ruskin always thinks theologically, and what he most consistently thinks theologically about is what Thomas Hughes calls the “human-built world,” which comprises both what we usually call technology and what we usually call art. Ruskin’s exploration of how humans respond to the given world through making, when properly understood, reveals him as a kind of predecessor to twentieth-century figures like the German philosopher Martin Heidegger—but with a warmth and a passion and an eloquence that set him quite apart from the notoriously inscrutable Heidegger."
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11/11/2019 07:23:20 am
It was discussed here the importance of knowing right and wrong and how we can do something about the decisions that we are needed to do in the present moment. There are choices that are hard to make but if we are just wise enough then there will be less problem that we needed to solve. We can all make it in the end if we just continue to strive for the best. Let us support each other and be a person that knows how to handle time. We can always be wise in spending our time.
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