Thus it is proper to the theoretical attitude of the philosopher that he is more and more predetermined to devote his whole future life, in the sense of a universal […]
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universal but mythico-practical attitude and the ‘theoretical’
There is a sharp cleavage, then, between the universal but mythico-practical attitude and the ‘theoretical’, which by every previous standard is unpractical, the attitude of thaumazein [Gr. = to wonder], […]
The theoretical attitude is thoroughly unpractical
In contrast to the higher-level practical attitude there exists, however, still another essential possibility of a change in the universal natural attitude (with which we shall soon become acquainted in […]
The theoretical attitude has its historical origin in the Greeks
Before anything else, the attitude of these two kinds of ‘philosophers’, the overall orientation of their interests, is thoroughly different. Here and there one may observe a world-embracing interest that […]
theretical attitude
There is a sharp cleavage, then, between the universal but mythico-practical attitude and the ‘theoretical’, which by every previous standard is unpractical, the attitude of thaumazein [Gr. = to wonder], […]
theoretical attitude
Only with the Greeks, however, do we find a universal (‘cosmological’) vital interest in the essentially new form of a purely ‘theoretical’ attitude. This is true, too, of the communal […]