somebody's comment yesterday got me reading Kierkegaard's "Purity of Heart" essay and my fucking god i have not wanted to slap the shit out of a dead man so badly since the last time i read more than three words of Kant at once
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it's easy to see how hugely influential this guy was on modern ethics from the ivory tower right down to street level and how much that has to do with modern ethics being a giant trash fire
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hahahaha i think there's some kierkegaard you'd like, none of it's his mainstream stuff of course (i have read exactly 0 of his "must-read" books)https://twitter.com/ckhonson/status/735871911507300352 …
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you'd probably like The Concept of Irony, basically 19th century progenitor of Alinsky actually okay maybe you'd hate it
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it wouldn't be any great surprise if i'd managed to land on the one thing of his best guaranteed to irritate me
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