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Speaking Being: Werner Erhard,
Martin Heidegger, and a New
Possibility of Being Human

Bruce Hyde, PhD and
Drew Kopp, PhD;
Wiley (2019)

“This book is powerful, imaginative, frustrating, amusing, threatening, and enlightening—all at the same time. It also has the power to transform your life.”

Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania Professor of Ethics, author of Impromptu Man

 

 

 

A History of Werner Erhard's Work and Ideas.

 

The Werner Erhard Foundation

In the nearly 20 years of its operation, the Werner Erhard Foundation granted approximately $4 million for research, scholarly endeavors, and voluntary action. It was the foundation's privilege to support more than 300 outstanding individuals and organizations from a variety of disciplines. Working in many diverse fields and surroundings, these recipients made a profound contribution to human thinking, growth, and achievement.

 

 

Werner Erhard established the Werner Erhard Foundation in 1973 (originally as the est Foundation) to provide an opportunity for individuals to express their commitment to significantly altering what is possible for humanity. Its mission was to foster and support catalytic projects that would provide far-reaching breakthroughs in fields related to both personal and social development. The Werner Erhard foundation brought together individuals from around the world to contribute to and participate in ground-breaking work in the area of human achievement and transformation.

Contributions from the Werner Erhard Foundation helped avert a catastrophic famine in Ethiopia, rebuild an elementary school in Mexico City following a devastating earthquake, and also made the work of Buckminster Fuller more widely known. The work of transformation and personal responsibility was brought to the former Soviet Union and the Werner Erhard Foundation launched projects such as The Hunger Project, The Mastery Foundation, The Holiday Project, World Runners and the Youth at Risk Program, which continue to be vital and active today.

 

This site is developed on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of people whose lives were touched by the Werner Erhard Foundation - those who organized not for recognition, but for the love of humanity. From theoretical physics to tackling world hunger, over two decades of work, beginning in 1973, fostered breakthroughs in human thinking, growth and development that are still present in the world today.

Why share this with you now? Because there is no better time to illustrate, no matter what the decade, no matter who you are, no matter what you do, we all have the ability to foster great thinking, expand our own and other's level of achievement and make a lasting difference. The world is waiting.

 

“We can choose to be audacious enough to take responsibility for the entire human family. We can choose to make our love for the world what our lives are really about. Each of us has the opportunity, the privilege, to make a difference in creating a world that works for all of us. It will require courage, audacity and heart. It is much more radical than a revolution – it is the beginning of a transformation in the quality of life on our planet. What we create together is a relationship in which our work can show up as making a difference in people’s lives. I welcome the unprecedented opportunity for us to work globally on that which concerns us all as human beings.

If not you, who?
If not now, when?
If not here, where?”

Werner Erhard

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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