| 1944 | Dialectic of Enlightenment |
| p.6 | 15663 | Adorno and Horkheimer subjected the Enlightenment to 'critical theory' analysis | |
| Full Idea: Adorno and Horkheimer's analysis of Enlightenment sets the agenda for the subsequent development of critical theory. | |||
| From: report of T Adorno / M Horkheimer (Dialectic of Enlightenment [1944]) by James Gordon Finlayson - Habermas Ch.1:07 |
| p.118 | p.118 | 20572 | De Sade said it was impossible to rationally argue against murder |
| Full Idea: De Sade trumpeted far and wide the impossibility of deriving from reason any fundamental argument against murder. | |||
| From: T Adorno / M Horkheimer (Dialectic of Enlightenment [1944], p.118) | |||
| A reaction: [They focus on 'Juliette'] This is a big problem for utilitarians, because murdering an unhappy person may maximise happiness. Presumably a maniac could will universal carnage, and thus thwart Kant. |