The garden is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty.
John Carroll
Source: Wikipedia
By punishing the criminal the moral man hopes to dissuade the evil imprisoned in his own breast from escaping. Fear of self is projected in hatred of the immoral other.
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The 'I think, therefore I am' of Descartes, the 'I feel, therefore I am' of late eighteenth century Romanticism, and the 'I possess therefore I am' of bourgeois man are dogmas, partial at that, incorporated to define a being that is incapable of defining itself.
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Whereas Marx's vision of homo faber becomes inoperative within social chains, Stirner's man makes his own freedom.
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Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.
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Nietzsche that the scientist is at best an instrument, a useful slave: he does not command or decide, he is not a whole man.
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
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