Sublime

The point of leading a free life—both individually and collectively—is not to transcend the realm of necessity but to be able to negotiate its relation to the realm of freedom.

What it means to be Martin is inseparable from the relative priority of my practical identities.

Because it is not given what we should do or who we should be, there is always a question of with whom and with what we should keep faith.

the key to democratic socialism is to have institutions in which we participate because we recognize ourselves and our freedom in their form.

The political project of democratic socialism requires secular faith.

Under capitalism, all questions of what we need, what we want, and what is durable, must be subordinated to the question of what is profitable.

The more free time we have to pursue the activities that matter to us, the wealthier we are.

My freedom therefore requires that I can ask myself what I should do with my time.

It is impossible for any one of us to be in the realm of freedom alone, since who we are and what we do is unintelligible without the recognition of others.