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" ... inhuman" in a very literal sense unless it is constantly talked about by human beings. For the world is not humane just because it is made by human beings, and it does not become humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has... "
A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s
by Rebecca E. Klatch - 2023 - 400 pages
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Men in Dark Times

Hannah Arendt - Biography - 1968 - 292 pages
...humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the object of discourse. However much we are affected by the things of the...us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse — the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny...
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Nathan the Wise, Minna Von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 378 pages
...humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the object of discourse. However much we are affected by the things of the...us only when we can discuss them with our fellows. Whatever cannot become the object of discourse — the truly sublime, the truly horrible or the uncanny...
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"Daddy's Gone to War": The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

William M. Tuttle Jr. - History - 1993 - 382 pages
...the political importance of friendship, and the humaneness peculiar to it, were made manifest. . . . However much we are affected by the things of the...fellows We humanize what is going on in the world and in ourselves only by speaking of it, and in the course of speaking of it we learn to be human."6...
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The Fateful Discourse of Worldly Things

David Halliburton - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 428 pages
...humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the object of discourse. However much we are affected by the things of the...human for us only when we can discuss them with our fellows.57 The things discoursed of may be said to be all things, any one of which may equally be said...
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Working to Make a Difference: The Personal and Pedagogical Stories of ...

Samuel Totten - Education - 2003 - 240 pages
...humane just because the human voice sounds in it, but only when it has become the subject of discourse. However much we are affected by the things of the...us only when we can discuss them with our fellows" (p. 2). Jacob Bronowski, a philosopher, is another of my "virtual teachers." In his extraordinary TV...
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