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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well there's thishttps://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1184892797943533568 …
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where the mindset that produced this essay, at least, went wrong was in the pious pretense that ~willing the Good~ for its own sake rather than reward-seeking is in any way not a sneakier species of reward-seeking where you get to jerk yourself off about how pure of heart you are
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