A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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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
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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