🇩🇪 Deutsche Version: Was passiert, wenn wir vergessen, wer der Mensch ist?
In the preceding chapters we have seen what a person is and what it means to be a human being. We have seen that the human being is a someone, not a something — a spiritual being in a body, endowed with reason, free will, the capacity to love, and an inalienable dignity. But what happens when this knowledge is lost? Not through an accident, not through a disease of memory, but through a much deeper kind of forgetting — one that can take hold of entire societies?
That is what this chapter is about. It is about the forgetting of who the human being really is. And it is about the consequences this forgetting has — for each individual, for the community, for the way we live with one another.
Sections
- What It Means to Forget the Essence of the Human Being
- A Forgetting That Operates Unseen
- What Exactly Falls into Oblivion?
- When a False Theory Misjudges the Human Being
- When the Forgetting Shows Itself in Actions
- Why This Concerns Us All