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Ethics is a Smug Nihilism
"This is why ethics would be better named - since it speaks Greek - a 'eu-oudénose', a smug nihilism.
Againgst this we can set only that which is yet not being, but which our thought declares itself able to conceive.
Every age - and in the end, none is worth more than any other - has its own figure of nihilism. The names change, but always under these names ('ethics for example) we find the articulation of conservative propaganda with an obscure desire for catastrophe.
It is only by declaring that we want conservative decrees to be impossible, and by affirming truths against the desire for nothingness, that we tear ourselves away from nihilism. The possibility of the impossible, which is exposed by every loving encounter, every scientific re-foundation, every artistic invention and every sequence of emancipatory politics, is the sole principle - against the ethics of 'livingwell' whose real content is the deciding of death - of an ethics of truths."
Alain Badou - Ethics (Chapter 3 - Ethics as a Figure of Nihilism)
Againgst this we can set only that which is yet not being, but which our thought declares itself able to conceive.
Every age - and in the end, none is worth more than any other - has its own figure of nihilism. The names change, but always under these names ('ethics for example) we find the articulation of conservative propaganda with an obscure desire for catastrophe.
It is only by declaring that we want conservative decrees to be impossible, and by affirming truths against the desire for nothingness, that we tear ourselves away from nihilism. The possibility of the impossible, which is exposed by every loving encounter, every scientific re-foundation, every artistic invention and every sequence of emancipatory politics, is the sole principle - against the ethics of 'livingwell' whose real content is the deciding of death - of an ethics of truths."
Alain Badou - Ethics (Chapter 3 - Ethics as a Figure of Nihilism)
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