Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they constitute part of the theatre housing the individual's action. ... The egoist uses the elements of the social… — 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 Image
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… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
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
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