“The wish to undo an evil that was done to you in the past is the very model of senseless obsession. If you cannot abandon it, you will be trapped in the sterile self-defeat of rage without revenge, pain without relief.” – Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email […]
Entries from May 2012
Or you could become a political activist
May 2nd, 2012 · 9 Comments
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The justification of consolation
May 1st, 2012 · No Comments
“The difference between invoking collective good as a way of consoling us for individual suffering and invoking it as a way of justifying individual suffering is so fine that it is routinely ignored in political practice.” – Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought (emphasis in original) Share this… Facebook Pinterest Twitter Linkedin Email Print
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