I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.
Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations_. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures_. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.
What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
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Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations_. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures_. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures.
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