Affair Quote by John Carroll

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

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

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

— John Carroll

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

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

The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89

— John Carroll

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

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

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

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

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

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