The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is, behaviour which is emotionally charged to the degree that it is either frequently recalled, reflected upon, or day-dreamed… — 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,… — 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
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
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Copy Share
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
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues they should… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief and action… — John Carroll Copy Share
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is… — John Carroll Copy Share
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish… — John Carroll Copy Share
