Man did not produce the cosmos, and its bottommost depths remain opaque to him. Complete, demonstrable knowledge is attainable only within the bounds of mathematics and in the field of history, which is the realm of man’s own activities and can therefore be known by him. In the midst of the sea of doubt that threatened to engulf man at the beginning of the modern period after the collapse of the old metaphysics, the factum was here discovered as the dry land on which man could try to build a new existence for himself. The dominance of the fact began, that is, man’s complete devotion to his own
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This is humanism, isn't it? We develop beliefs that focus on us rather than looking for Truth.
This us why during COVID, the focus is on the safety of the physical body rather the soul.
