Hans Jonas

Two are the moments in world history where nihilism becomes a dominant culture: our own, and those of the strange mystics who have been known since the late Hellenistic Age as "Gnostics." Thousands of years later, their religion had remained largely unintelligible. Until a young German scholar, student of the great Heidegger, thought of using his teacher's radical methods to crack open its secrets. What he discovered surprised him.
-- Ancient Greece Revisited | youtube.com | "11.9K subscribers | 2,864 views Premiered Aug 6, 2022 | Two are the moments in world history where nihilism becomes a dominant culture: our own, and those of the strange mystics who have been known since the late Hellenistic Age as "Gnostics." Thousands of years later, their religion had remained largely unintelligible. Until a young German scholar, student of the great Heidegger, thought of using his teacher's radical methods to crack open its secrets. What he discovered surprised him."There is a chapter on Hans Jonas in the book "Heidegger's Children" by Richard Wolin. Worth reading.
-- @jamiemchugh8958, 1 year ago
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* the alien god; xeno-christianity; xeno-culture; xenological
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