Sublime

And he corrupts the young in that he attempts to show them that there is a false life, a devastated life, which is a life conceived of and lived as a fierce struggle for power and money. A life reduced in every possible way to the pure and simple gratification of immediate impulses.

Diogenes,

a cry against the actual on behalf of the unknowable.

“Anyone who doesn’t take love as a starting point will never understand the nature of philosophy”.

but philosophers have a duty to be attentive not just to what is going on but to what, in their own experience, strikes them as most unusual, unique, exceptional: as a sign pointing to what is to come rather than to what merely is.

This conviction – which I sometimes call “the communist Idea” – holds that, after the inevitable abandonment of tradition has been accepted, in the very process of this abandonment, we must work to create an egalitarian symbolization that will guide, code, and form the peaceful subjective basis for the collectivization of resources, the effective e

Sur le plan politique, il avait reçu la confirmation que le phénomène démocratique constituait la clé de l’avenir, qui permettrait de libérer la créativité et l’énergie de la société et, dès lors, ne manquerait pas de s’imposer en France et en Europe. Sur le plan intellectuel, il s’engagea dans un travail de compréhension du phénomène démocratique

other: Western capitalism’s a-symbolic vision, which produces monstrous inequalities and pathogenic disorientation, and the vision commonly known as “communism,” which, ever since the time of Marx and his contemporaries, has been proposing the creation of an egalitarian symbolization.

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