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We all know the standard pragmatic-utilitarian criticism of the abstract [[humanist]] education: who needs philosophy, [[L

...[[stage]] actors and extras… Again, the ultimate truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized universe is the de-materialization of the "real life" itse

...[[stage]] actors and extras… Again, the ultimate truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized [[universe]] is the de-materialization of the "real life"

..., a violence one is tempted to call Id-[[Evil]], a violence grounded in no utilitarian or ideological reasons. All the talk [[about]] [[foreigners]] stealing [[wo

...al" life as stage actors and extras… The ultimte truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized universe is the de-materialization of the "real life" itse

...l bourgeois [[subject]] is, in [[terms]] of his [[conscious]] attitude, an utilitarian nominalist — it is in his social activity, in [[exchange]] on the market,

...e of some [[material]] gain, while an ironist doubts if a cold calculating utilitarian is really what he pretends to be, i.e,. he suspects that this [[appearance]

...happened, as if it were just a minor [[disturbance]] (the reaction of the "utilitarian" liberal [[democracy]]); (2) the [[false]] imitation of the event of Truth

...on which directly knows the noumenal domain not strictly homologous to the utilitarian subject whose acts are fully determined by the calculus of pleasures and pa ...teful acts, even if they would benefit people (in contrast to a consequent utilitarian who can find strong reasons for doing something which he finds morally dist

...to the Freudian Id (<i>[[das Es]], le Ça</i>), a violence grounded in no utilitarian or ideological reasons. All the talk about [[foreigners]] stealing work fro

...h promised [[liberté]], [[égalité]], [[fraternité]] is the miserable [[utilitarian]]/[[egotistical]] [[universe]] of [[market]] calculation. (This gap was ev

...It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely [[utilitarian ]][[terms]]: each involves a certain [[ideological]] [[perception]] of how ...lective thoroughness ([[German]]), revolutionary hastiness ([[French]]), [[utilitarian]] [[pragmatism]] ([[English]]). In [[political]] terms, this [[triad]] can

...ation etc). Any consistent [[ethical]] stance has to reject such pragmatic-utilitarian reasoning. Here's a simple [[thought]] experiment: imagine an Arab newspape

...on which directly knows the noumenal domain not strictly homologous to the utilitarian subject whose acts are fully determined by the calculus of pleasures and pa

...dental]] [[cause]] for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance - like, the [[goal]] of my lif

...[[stage]] actors and extras... Again, the ultimate truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized [[universe]] is the de-materialization of the "real life"

...ike stage actors and extras... Again, the ultimate truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized universe is the de-materialization of "real life" itself,

...al" life as stage actors and extras... The ultimte truth of the capitalist utilitarian de-spiritualized universe is the de-materialization of the "real life" itse

...happened, as if it were just a minor [[disturbance]] (the reaction of the "utilitarian" liberal [[democracy]]); (2) the [[false]] imitation of the event of Truth

...ation etc). Any consistent [[ethical]] stance has to reject such pragmatic-utilitarian reasoning. Here's a simple [[thought]] experiment: imagine an Arab newspape

...no [[objective]] standards would determine it, indeed, that it exceeds any utilitarian definition of what is [[good]] for you. Having described it he draws a mesm

...dental]] [[cause]] for which to die, we are allowed to adopt a hedonistic, utilitarian, or even more spiritually egotistical stance-the [[goal]] of my life is the

..., any more than in his schooling, that language has an effect which is not utilitarian, or ornamental at the very most. For him, Freud is useful in congresses.

...d the power of expansion is also seen in what I expressed last time as the utilitarian tendency. At this level of homogenization, the law of utility, as that whic

...er, he soon got to work on the project, which he considered to be strictly utilitarian drudgery. The essay appeared in 1901.

...ed the important [[notion]] of the "as if" [[personality]], which is not a utilitarian lie told on a given occasion, but rather protects the "true Self" with a "[

** Utilitarian Fictions

...ism]], but hsi use of literature can be surprisingly conventional and even utilitarian, as when he describes ''Hamlet'' as illustrating a decadent form of the [[O

..., a violence one is tempted to call Id-[[Evil]], a violence grounded in no utilitarian or ideological reasons. All the talk about [[foreigners]] stealing work fro

...mined by their egoistic interest; every one of [[them]] proceeds as a good utilitarian; the other person is for him wholly delivered of all mystical aura; all he

...[[society]] to refuse to recognize that it has any function other than the utilitarian one, and in the anguish of the individual confronting the concentrational f

...s often varied by [[Marx]] and Engels – how, once the "normal" pragmatic-utilitarian bourgeois daily life was established, its own violent heroic origins were d ...sion, of the Event of freedom, equality, and brotherhood, is the miserable utilitarian/egotistic universe of market calculations. (And, incidentally, is not this

...eme was often varied by Marx and Engels - how, once the "normal" pragmatic-utilitarian bourgeois daily life was established, its own violent heroic origins were d ...sion, of the Event of freedom, equality, and brotherhood, is the miserable utilitarian/egotistic universe of market calculations. (And, incidentally, is not this

...s, equal to us, the benevolent attitude of making the step over the strict utilitarian or "rational" calculation of costs and benefits in relations to others, of

...int of irony, discerning beneath them "pathological" motivations (egotism, utilitarian interest, search for pleasures) or reducing them to effects of objective me

...to can also be expressed in terms of focusing on ethical duty and ignoring utilitarian concerns: do your duty, and happiness and the Good will take care of themse

...y where one would not expect to find it, in marginal and apparently purely utilitarian situations, like the safety instructions prior to the take-off of an airpla

...is crucial here: in Kant, one has to avoid two traps, not only the simple utilitarian-pragmatic limitation of our interest to the object of phenomenal experience