The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Unless the fundamental categories of economics such as 'property' were to be redefined in a radically personal way the liberal rationalist curse which had established economics as a scientific discipline cut off from human interests would proliferate. Economic models ...… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear… — John Carroll Copy Share
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Copy Share Image
If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in… — John Carroll Copy Share
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Unlike Hegel's progress model of history, which moves by stages, each containing its own logic of growth and decline, the economic model develops as… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil;… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of great personalities,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
![“The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of…” quote by John Carroll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e74/john-carroll-16284_beauty_the-garden-of-eden-is-the-realm-of-pure_669813.jpg)
