The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. — John Carroll Ideological 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 Character Copy Share Image
This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding. — John Carroll Bending Copy Share Image
The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments. — John Carroll Ambition Copy Share Image
Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful. — John Carroll Animal Copy Share Image
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless,… — John Carroll Assertive 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… — John Carroll Affair Copy Share Image
If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that… — John Carroll Accepted Copy Share Image
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and… — John Carroll Character 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… — John Carroll Beauty Copy Share Image
The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly… — John Carroll Absence 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… — John Carroll Affair 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… — John Carroll Containing Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Accumulation Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... argues that all that passes in the life of a society is ephemeral and banausic except for the presence of… — John Carroll Arguing Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll Achievement Copy Share Image
Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive… — John Carroll Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can… — John Carroll Belief 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… — John Carroll Benefits Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's underground man ... observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. ... He argues… — John Carroll Absolutes Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief… — John Carroll Action 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… — John Carroll Bourgeois Copy Share Image
For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is… — John Carroll Ants Copy Share Image
[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. — John Carroll Determination Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance… — John Carroll Absence Copy Share Image
Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent… — John Carroll Character Copy Share Image
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits.… — John Carroll Character Copy Share Image
What stands most explicitly as critique in Nietzsche's late work in not a development from earlier interests but a return to two… — John Carroll Antichrist Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Academia Copy Share Image
Nietzsche ... combines, in effect, Christ's harsh sayings: 'let the dead bury their dead' and 'narrow is the way which leadeth unto life'. — John Carroll Christ Copy Share Image
In so far as the intention of education is to train the child for a vocation it is a millstone around his… — John Carroll Career Copy Share Image
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction. — John Carroll Destruction Copy Share Image
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their… — John Carroll Asks Copy Share Image
Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom. — John Carroll Alternatives Copy Share Image
A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play. — John Carroll Adventure 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… — John Carroll Accepting Copy Share Image
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for… — John Carroll Arguing Copy Share Image
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as… — John Carroll Axioms Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Analysis Copy Share Image
The dialectical critique of positivist habits of mind ... is interested only in behaviour which is 'important' to the actor; that is,… — John Carroll Actors Copy Share Image
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