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Ideas of Jean Baudrillard, by Text
[French, 1929 - 2007, originally a teacher of German]
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p.192
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example [Critchley]
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2004
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The Intelligence of Evil
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p.21
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Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?
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p. 17
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p.17
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There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say
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p. 40
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p.40
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The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality
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p. 54
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p.54
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People like democracy because it means they can avoid power
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p. 55
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p.55
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Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals
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p. 57
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p.57
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There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life
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p. 83
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p.83
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
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p.111
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p.111
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7980
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In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object
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p.120
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p.120
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7981
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Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them
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p.129
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p.129
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7982
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Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled
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p.139
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p.139
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7983
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Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune
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p.153
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p.153
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7984
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Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored
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p.155
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p.155
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7985
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Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God
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p.196
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p.196
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7986
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Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones
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p.210
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p.210
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Nothing is true, but everything is exact
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