Sublime

Mesmo que o estranho não tenha nenhuma intenção hostil, mesmo que ele não represente nenhum perigo, é eliminado em virtude de sua alteridade.

We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.

O que vemos nesse homem é o exercício da necropolítica, uma decisão de morte.

Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive

Any questioning or discrediting of what is currently the most efficient means of producing acquiescence and docility, of promoting self-interest as the raison d’être of all social activity, is rigorously marginalized.

If we are nothing but what we think about, then no predefined ‘inner nature’ can hold us back. We are protean. He gave this idea a Sartrean makeover in a short essay which he began writing in Berlin, but published only in 1939: ‘A Fundamental Idea of Husserl’s Phenomenology: Intentionality’.

Spinoza, là encore, n’a cessé de rappeler : l’État est fait « pour libérer l’individu de la crainte, pour qu’il vive autant que possible en sécurité, c’est-à-dire conserve, aussi bien qu’il se pourra et sans dommage pour autrui, son droit naturel d’exister et d’agir. (…) La fin de l’État est donc en réalité la liberté ». Mais la sécurité n’est pas

Philosophically, modernity is often referred to as “The Age of Man.” In ascension since the Renaissance, it crystallized toward the end of the 18th century into a configuration of knowledge that French philosopher Michel Foucault characterized as an episteme in which the figure of Man as the foundation of all possible knowledge. Jamaican

La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.