Sublime

One political principle at both the social and the individual level is that whether one promotes or opposes change depends on whether that change is perceived to result in a gain or a loss. For Karl Marx

whereas Hegel understood his philosophical approach as primarily descriptive, Kierkegaard and Marx borrowed an essentially Hegelian conception of selfhood but used it prescriptively. However, as each developed his parallel criticism of Hegel’s idealism, freeing his conception of selfhood from its conservative formulation, what had once been imagine

La seconde façon de pratiquer la philosophie, celle du penseur prussien, envisage les conditions de possibilité de la pensée, elle se soucie des modalités de la connaissance, elle veut réduire la diversité et la multiplicité du monde, sa vitalité et ses efflorescences aussi, à une poignée de concepts agencés dans des architectures systématiques. Le

The Platonic Socrates was a pattern to subsequent philosophers for many ages. What are we to think of him ethically? (I am concerned only with the man as Plato portrays him.) His merits are obvious. He is indifferent to worldly success, so devoid of fear that he remains calm and urbane and humourous to the last moment, caring more for what he belie

for both Kierkegaard and Marx, the challenge of philosophy was not the conservative task of merely understanding the world. Instead, the challenge was to change it,

freedom of thought and correctness of thought,