Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as pot… - John Carroll
For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as pot…
- John Carroll
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for … - John Carroll
Ownership of thought depends on the thinker not subordinating himself to a 'ruling thought'. This is particularly difficult, argues Stirner, ... for …
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89 - John Carroll
The original of morals lies with the thought that 'the community is more valuable than the individual' (Menschliches 2.1.89
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. - John Carroll
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The a… - John Carroll
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The a…
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their t… - John Carroll
Education is the strongest weapon available for restricting the questions people ask, controlling what they think, and ensuring that they get their t…
The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his,… - John Carroll
The act of greatest subversion ... is the one of indifference. A man, or a group, finds it unbearable that someone can be simply uninterested in his,…
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief a… - John Carroll
Stirner and Nietzsche [adopt] a mode of thinking which is personal, introspective, and which while often operating on alternative systems of belief a…
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the… - John Carroll
Nietzsche saw in the Protestant ethic, in both its religious and secular (economic) forms, a final protest before the emergence into dominance of the…
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