Search for GodsIn the unequaled and majestic contemporary technological phase of our cultural development, where democratic liberties and the means of well being are accessible to everyone; man is unsatisfied, insecure, rebellious, confused and lost. More than ever before he seems to lack the sureness of his way in life. The abundance of theories, doctrines and various philosophical, social or religious systems and moral teachings fails to provide the individual today with any clarity whatsoever. Lacking this, he turns to peripheral events, to sensational occurrences; he turns his attention to more and to glaring new models of technological products. more new things, mostly Acquiring a great multitude of these and various other things, he seems to stress his own importance, thus making an inquiry in its fundamental validity superfluous. In this way he escapes the search of his very own mission; he betrays the superior powers which demand from him his existential contribution in finding his ideals and outlining the way of his life. |
Contents
Obscurities in Mans World Introduction Confusion and Search for Gods | 1 |
Cabin on the Nechako | 3 |
The General Method of the Present Book 1237 3 | 7 |
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According ancient Lithuanian anthropocentric Aphrodite Atum become being-man belongs cendental Chthonian co-player concealed conscious contemporary cult Dasein death deities Dionysus disclosed disclosure dwelling Enlil entitative reality essentially Eugen Fink event everything existential festivities fire freedom Gabija goddess godly grounds harmony Heidegger Heidegger's Hippolytus holy human Ibid inner innermost karmic guilt king krivis language light logos lordly man's cultural world man's responsive man's world manifest Martin Heidegger milieu mission Moreover Mother Earth mythical thought mythical world nation Nature's creative Nature's play Nature's transcendental Nechako River Nile openness Osiris participation in Nature's peripheral Perkunas pharaoh philosophy physis plants Plato play of gods play of Nature powers of Nature powers of reality pristine response to Nature's search for gods self-disclosure sense Sharunas simultaneously society soul standing stead subconscious sway technological traits transcendental powers transcendental principles transcendental reality ultimate unentitative viespats wisdom word Zemyna Zeus Zierer