Sublime

By a Schaefferian strategy,

The disordered love of learning makes you a mere technician of information for some end other than wisdom, and the irony is that philosophy could devolve into just another way of idolizing.

Modern efforts to locate universalisms in secular ethical tenets –such as Kantian moral universalism, communism or modernization theory – are in apparent retreat, precisely at a time when nationalism has succumbed to capitalist forms of universal commodification.

Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.

Thomas Aquinas rejected it, and among theologians his authority has prevailed ever since. But among philosophers it has had a better fate. Descartes revived it in a somewhat amended form; Leibniz thought that it could be made valid by the addition of a supplement to prove that God is possible. Kant considered that he had demolished it once for all.

nominalist

preference for personal integrity is based on the moral absurdity

We actually believe more than ever now. The ultimate form of belief is deconstruction.