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Contemporary man considers himself great simply because he is the final phase of a progress which began in the early ages. Is contemporary man’s greatness unquestionably founded in his being the final link in a long and gradual procedure of development? Such a question cannot be answered without any reference to some meditation or thought. Philosophy is the realm of thought. Philosophy then can properly deal with the greatness of contemporary man.
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Eugen Fink, Sein Wahrheit Welt (Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1958), p. 18
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Vycinas, V. (1966). Introduction: Greatness of Western Man. In: Greatness and Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0661-8_1
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