According to Patocka, nature is as an alien build, and background, which begun as a quest for greater which means, ends with lifestyles as self-sustaining intake. Patocka explains how Europe declined from its Greek history to hunt energy instead of fact, splintering into ethnic subdivisions, after which how the Enlightenment moved Europe from a moral to a cloth orientation.
This e-book incorporates a translation of the Preface to the French variation through Paul Ricoeur.
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