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There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to excee...

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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in tha...

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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...

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The Concept of Model: An Introduction to the Materialist Epistemology of Mathematics

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through...

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Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can...

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I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of...

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Alain Badiou

Philosopher

Born: 1937-01-17

Died: N/A

Alain Badiou (born January 17, 1937) is a contemporary French philosopher, Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth, event and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Badiou has been involved in a number of political organisations, and regularly comments on political events. Badiou argues for resurrecting the practice of communism.More