Evil
from the essence of evil to naturalist ideology
Illness, misfortune, evil; “Evil, or the non-knowledge of oneself”; the essence of evil, the innocence of nature and the horror of naturalism; then imaginary identity and naturalist ideology.
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Clouscard: The metamorphoses of class struggle
How does Clouscard's thought, read from Les Métamorphoses de la lutte des classes and its relation to Rousseau, account for the present situation?
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Sickness, misfortune, evil
How is evil, under the figures of misfortune, illness and suffering, linked to autumn and finitude, and how can it be overcome?
- 03
The eternal return… of the death camps?
If everything is determined and returns eternally, is philosophy, which asks the question "what must I do?", still possible, and can one still deliver a message against evil?
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Evil, or the “unknowing” of the self
Why can the essence of evil be defined as lying, that is, as a privation of self-knowledge?
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The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!
What is evil, if one starts from Rousseau's distinction between the state of nature and the civil state?
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On the anti-Sovietism of the Khmer Rouge-Greens
Why were the Khmer Rouge, communists, hostile to the Soviets, and what does their genocide reveal about the essence of evil?
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Imaginary identity
Is identity a substance, or must it be converted into relation and function?
- 08
Flagrante Delights
What do perfumes, even the foul-smelling ones, teach us about sublimation, about modernity, and about man caught between the indeterminate and the determinate?
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Naturalist ideology: answers to questions
What does money reveal about desire and self-knowledge, and why speak of a dialectic of matter rather than a dialectic of nature?