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Seriously?
Those who take themselves that seriously don’t have the right to do so. Those who have the right to take themselves that seriously don’t have the inclination. -
The position of arrogance.
The high have the right to be proud. The low have to be satisfied with a little respect. -
Amor mundi.
The mystics and religionists might be right to seek transcendence. I would still go wrong with the secularists and existentialists out of love for this world. -
Moral ambiguity.
A: I don’t know what’s right or wrong anymore. B: Perhaps the problem is that you thought you knew in the first place. -
Either irony or truth.
Give up my left hand or my right -
Two seats, same table.
The political question is what is possible for those sitting on the left, and what is practical for those on the right: two variations on an old, but not yet exhausted question. -
Meta-discrimination.
To say that association is necessarily discriminatory is not necessarily to justify discrimination per se. I, for one, reserve the right to discriminate among the various forms of discrimination. -
The body politic.
Hannah Arendt is my left hand and Carl Schmitt is my right. As an ambidextrous lefty, I write with my left hand, but punch with my right. -
History of trickery.
Way back when, domination disguised itself as right through "objective" morality (religion, metaphysics, natural law, etc). More recently, "subjective" choice (will, desire, contract, etc) shorn of "objective" moralit… -
What effect might the right to pursue unhappiness have?
It couldn’t do worse than the false happiness and true misery brought about by the right to pursue happiness.
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