Sublime

In a similar vein, the egalitarian philosopher Elizabeth Anderson has argued that, for Smith, the “leading virtues of market society” were not growth and efficiency, but rather freedom from relationships of private domination and dependence.

individualism does not, by itself, contradict compassion; and neither is it synonymous with self-absorption. On the contrary: individualism allows compassion and social engagement to expand well beyond the confining boundaries of tribes. Moreover, often what makes strong social safety nets—the ultimate in compassion and engagement—possible is the e

Yet such a development would deal a mortal blow to the liberal belief in the sacredness of human life and of human experiences. What’s so sacred in useless bums who pass their days devouring artificial experiences in La La Land?

Here Moldbug is channeling Rand, who explicitly said that “the universities are the real villains in the picture” and that “those who didn’t go to college are more intelligent and better informed and less easily fooled than the people who did go to college.”

person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one’s function in the sociopolitical whole.

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Selfless women make for an efficient society but not a beautiful, true, or just one.

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