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Badiou's Ethics

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Exploring Ethics and Truth: The Relationship between Good and Evil

The philosopher questions the concept of good vs evil, arguing that traditional ethics reduce humans to mere animals. He opposes a negative approach to ethics and instead proposes an ethics of truth. He criticizes the idea of a natural law and argues for a different perspective, where the good becomes a source of evil. Although not as cynical as Bojiro, he challenges the concept of human happiness as the basis for ethics, calling it nihilism.

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