Sublime

The morality of most moralists ancient and modern, has been one solid and polished cataract of platitudes flowing for ever and ever.

We should try always to use language to illuminate, reveal and clarify rather than obscure, mislead and conceal. The language should be safe in our hands

bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality, and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are.

He reacts as though he perceives her to be speaking about her feeling thoughtlessly, without conscientious attention to the relevant facts.

Tout ce qui donne quelque valeur à notre existence, dépend de la contrainte imposée aux actions d’autrui. Donc quelques règles de conduite doivent être imposées par la loi d’abord, et puis par l’opinion pour beaucoup de choses sur lesquelles l’action de la loi ne peut s’exercer. Ce que doivent être ces règles, voilà la principale question dans les

When you put individuals first, before society, then any rule or social practice that limits personal freedom can be questioned. If it doesn’t protect somebody from harm, then it can’t be morally justified. It’s just a social convention.

Here the Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre perceives a shift from communal ethics to a world order in which the individual has apparently become the norm. In his magnum opus After Virtue, MacIntyre explodes, among other things, the myth of modern moral freedom. Yes, we have been liberated from priests and the morality they imposed on us; but,