33 years ago, Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz pronounces the prophecy that Israel is carrying out today by explaining why he called Israel a “Judeo-Nazi” state.
Gabriel Marcel: “Today the first and perhaps the only duty of the #philosopher is to defend man against himself: to defend man against that extraordinary temptation toward #inhumanity to which — almost without being aware of it —so many human beings today have yielded.”
Philosophers cannot meet the obligations of this duty alone — it’s a struggle in which we all must join. (Though I would say that all who love wisdom are philosophers.)