C.B. Macpherson The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism Hobbes to Locke
we cannot now expect a valid theory of obligation to a liberal democratic state in a possessive market society. p.275
JL Austin How to do things with words
To sum up, we may say that the verdictive is an exercise of judgment, the exercitive is an assertion of influence or exercising of power, the commissive is an assuming of an obligation or declaring of an intention, the behabitive is the adopting of an attitude, and the expositive is the clarifying of reasons, arguments, and communications. p.162
Oakeshott Rationalism in Politics
As I understand it, the excellence of this conversation (as of others) springs from a tension between seriousness and playfulness. Each voice represents a serious engagement (though it is serious not merely in respect of its being pursued for the conclusions in promises); and without this seriousness the conversation would lack impetus. But in its participation in the conversation each voice learns to be playful, learns to recognize itself as a voice among voices. As with children, who are great conversationists, the playfulness is serious and the seriousness in teh end is only play. pp.201-202
Habermas, Jurgen The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
"The public sphere, once a forum for rational-critical debate, has been transformed into a court before which public relations displays its wares. The public is no longer a partner in dialogue, but an audience to be manipulated." (p. 162)
René Girard Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque
Pour qu'un vaniteux desire un objet il suffit de le convaincre que cet objet est deja desire par un tiers aquel s'attache un certain prestige. La mediateur est ici un rival que la vanite a d'abord suscite qu'elle a pour ainsi dire, appele a son existence de rival avant d'en exiger la defaite. p.20-21
Heidegger On Nietzsche
Not only must the thought emerge out of the creative moment of decision in some given individual, but as a thought that pertains to life itself it must also be a historical decision -- a crisis. p.154 continued p. 155 This plan culminates in a fifth point entitled "The doctrine of eternal return as hammer in the hand of the most powerful man. Wherever the thought of thoughts is indeed thought, that is to say, is incorporated, it conducts the thinker to supreme decisions in such a way that he expands beyond himself, thus attaining power over himself and willing himself. In this way such a man is as will to power.
Arendt, What is Freedom?
Political institutions, no matter how well or how badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action. p.153
Gadamer Truth and Method
In truth history does not belong to us, we belong to it.
Ricoeur, La Symbolique du mal The Symbolism of Evil
"The symbol gives rise to thought."
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