Status Updates From The Abolition of Man

makes you think

“I am arguing that if we are to have values at all we must accept the ultimate platitudes of Practical Reason as having absolute validity: that any attempt, having become sceptical about these, to reintroduce value lower down on some supposedly more ‘realistic’ basis, is doomed.”

“The rebellion of new ideologies against [objective value and reality] is a rebellion of the branches against the tree…”

Every. Single. Educator. needs to read this book. Grade school, and ESPECIALLY post-secondary, educators. It’s shocking…

“And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible….In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.”