
ZIZ008 The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason (01.05.2006)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Importance of Seeing Both Sides of Violence
Violence is literally invisible because it's a violence which sustains what within societies perceive this as such. Jean-Pierre Dupuy developed in his last book, which is for a metaphysics of tsunamis, a wonderful critique of John Rawls. He claimed that if we only try to imagine a Rawlsian society, just society, a society structured along following the principles of Rawls' theory of justice, would have been a catastrophic violent society.
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