“Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.” SoulIndividualHeroAbsenceDestroyingVillain Book:On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society Source: On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
“For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.” LawOrderPowerfulMoralCreaturesEconomicsFellowsInstinctAbsenceInventionAcquireSuperiorityUnjustCunningUnnaturalValidity Author:Gertrude Himmelfarb
