There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOUIn order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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