The ethics of Truth always returns, in precise circumstances, to fighting for the True against the four fundamentals forms of Evil obscurantism, commercial academicism, the politics of profit and inequality, and sexual barbarism.
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Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it's not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don't make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don't cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.Alain Badiou
It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the ideology of human rights, the concept of democracy. It is necessary to show that nothing there leads in the direction of the real emancipation of humanity. It is necessary to reconstruct rights, in everyday life as in politics, of Truth and of the Good. Our ability to once again have real ideas and real projects depends on it.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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