Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Best Lack of All Conviction and the Worst of Full of Passionate Intensity
WB Yates: The real maniacs who take control and say, we've got the absolute moral order sorted. And they're the ones in a way paradoxically drive everything into this kind of anarchy. So I'd argue fewer apocalypses, fewer maniacs, quite a lot of novels if that's all right. Yeah, a sort of porous moral view of things. But then on the other side, you have this kind of maniacal fervor, this passionate intensity that goes into sort of febrile intensity which does to the debate. Of course, novelists are just sort of waffling around in the centre somewhere trying to write these novels which express everything. That
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