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7419 | Ethics is the conscious practice of freedom [Foucault] |
Full Idea: What is ethics, if not the practice of freedom, the conscious [réfléchie] practice of freedom? | |
From: Michel Foucault (Ethics of the Concern for Self as Freedom [1984], p.284) | |
A reaction: Makes Foucault sound very existentialist. I'm not sure I understand this kind of remark, given that serial killers seem to be exceptionally good at 'practising their freedom'. However, the idea is akin to Kant's notion of a truly good will (Idea 3710). |
16003 | If people marry just because they are lonely, that is self-love, not love [Kierkegaard] |
Full Idea: People despair about being lonely and therefore get married. But is this love? I should say it is self-love. | |
From: Søren Kierkegaard (The Journals of Kierkegaard [1850], JP-III, 40-41) | |
A reaction: If you decide to marry someone because you don't want to be an old maid/bachelor in your elder years, try to actually love the person you're marrying. Not just for money or sex. [SY] |