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‘Vernunft [reason] is concerned with what is becoming, Verstand [rationality] with what has already become … [Reason] rejoices in whatever evolves; [rationality] wants to hold everything still, so that it can utilise it’.
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Rationality is reliant on abstraction to make things manipulable.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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