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"twentieth-century social life turns out in key part to be concrete and dramatic re-enactment of eighteenth-century philosophy. and the legitimation of the characteristic institutional forms depends upon a belief that some of the central claims of that earlier philosophy have been vindicated"
machievelli's invocation made me grin, we are so back folks
"not one game is being played, but several, and, if the game metaphor may be stretched further, the problem about real life is that moving one's knight to QB3 may always be replied to with a lob across the net" :)
just as unpredictability does not entail inexplicability, so predictability does not entail explicability
taking stock so far, i basically think this is a 10/10 book so far. we're heading into chapter 10 which seems like a turning point and im anxious (/pos) to see what comes next
also i just wanna say, i really enjoy his writing style. it's nice and comfortable and clever. i adored the kautsky reference with "road to power", there are so many subtle things like that
i like the sophrosuni virtue, it comes up in nietzsche every now and again
"there are indeed crucial conflicts in which different virtues appear as making rival and incompatible claims upon us. but our situation is tragic in that we have to recognize the authority of both claims. there is an objective moral order, but
our perceptions of it are such that we cannot bring rival moral truths into complete harmony with each other and yet the acknowledgment of the moral order and of the moral truth makes the kind of choice which a weber or a berlin urges upon us out of the question.
for to choose does not exempt me from the authority of the claim which i chose to go against."