Sublime

all of us are generalists inside. We were not born to do one thing only. It’s merely the economy that – for its own greedy ends – pushes us to sacrifice ourselves to one discipline alone, rendering us (in Marx’s words) ‘one-sided and dependent’ and ‘depressed spiritually and physically to the condition of a machine.’ It was in the Manuscripts of 18

Mestmäcker retient de Schmitt la nécessité d’assumer la nature explicitement politique du projet néolibéral de dépolitisation de l’économie. Il est soutenu dans cette position par un autre néolibéral de la deuxième génération, Erich Hoppmann.

In his 2022 book, What We Owe the Future, philosopher William MacAskill introduces the phenomenon of “early plasticity, later rigidity.” During and immediately following periods of rapid change, there is a brief window to participate in the creation of a new normal. Over time, however, that window closes, and things calcify and become rigid again.

The most important societal imperative is to ensure that all real individuality is dependent on the circulation of commodities.

As King avows in one of his religious sermons, “I do not pretend to understand all of the ways of God or his particular timetable for grappling with evil. Perhaps if God dealt with evil in the overbearing way that we wish, he would defeat his ultimate purpose.”84 Given this acquiescence of religious faith, the very idea of an “ultimate purpose” (a

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

We look at the world through the prism of our own narrow interests. Our professional needs colour what we pay attention to and bother with. We treat others and nature as means and not as ends.

The condition of our freedom, then, is that we understand ourselves as finite. Only in light of the apprehension that we will die—that our lifetime is indefinite but finite—can we ask ourselves what we ought to do with our lives and put ourselves at stake in our activities.

Freedom means freely choosing commitment and obligations that bring out the individual’s humanity; servitude means carrying out orders dictated by others. The