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Pain and pleasure are orthogonal to good and evil. There are good and evil pains, there are good and evil pleasures. Conflating them is the greatest fallacy of the moralist

We have need of a supreme antidote to realism. "I am a rational person" — has a rational person ever believed this? Strictly rational or empirical theories of knowledge can’t

Why do we see so many contemptible and useless people in the world? It’s because our mortality due to war and disease has never been lower. Our lack of a

My friends, these are perilous times; we find certain styles of thinking, certain ideas, certain opinions which were commonplace and accepted in our living memory have now been so stigmatized

These days, it seems that men and women hate each other. When I speak to them in person, they conceal it, but in virtual spaces, where one is free of

It's been several months since I was the object of anyone's online hatred. I find it edifying; once it was the exclusive privilege of kings and nobles to be hated

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles The images detached from every aspect of life fuse in a

The enlightenment political formula, "consent of the governed", such an obviously right and radiant idea, has proven to be a basilisk, a serpent that kills with its gaze. It stares

What is this beast called modernity, how does it grow, how does it change us, how does it devour us? And what is "progress" and what is "emancipation"? Indeed we

The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing. I

In feudal times, if a peasant struck a lord, or insulted him, the peasant had hell to pay. On the other hand, if a lord struck a peasant, there was

Life is too “politicized” these days. I think most people sense this but it’s a frustration that goes nowhere, because the cultural language that creates it is incapable of formulating