Ideas from 'The Intelligence of Evil' by Jean Baudrillard [2004], by Theme Structure

[found in 'The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact' by Baudrillard,Jean [Berg 2005,1-84520 334 8]].

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

7973	There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity

7975	The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

7986	Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

7982	Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality

7974	Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

7987	Nothing is true, but everything is exact

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

7978	There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

7980	In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / c. Value of happiness

7983	Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune

24. Political Theory / C. Ruling a State / 2. Leaders / c. Despotism

7981	Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 5. Democracy / d. Representative democracy

7976	People like democracy because it means they can avoid power

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / b. Liberal individualism

7977	Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history

7979	The arrival of the news media brought history to an end

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

7984	Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager

7985	Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God