Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p. xiv
“Revolt of a Newborn”, from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)
Source: The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1977), p.35
Public Talks, "3rd State of the Onion"
“Postmodernism poisons everything.”
" A book review claims that there is no conflict between science and religion, but for dumb reasons https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/08/09/a-book-review-claims-that-there-is-no-conflict-between-science-and-religion-but-for-an-unusual-reason/" August 9, 2015
“The concept of law can be defined only as the reality tending toward the idea of law.”
Rechtsphilosophie (1932)
“Theyʹre shooting at us,ʺ I said incredulously. ʺTheyʹre actually shooting at us!”
Source: Last Sacrifice
“Atheism and incredulity constitute an equivalent of such a purification.”
"Faiths of Meditation; Contemplation of the divine" as translated in The Simone Weil Reader (1957) edited by George A. Panichas, p. 418
Context: That is why St. John of the Cross calls faith a night. With those who have received a Christian education, the lower parts of the soul become attached to these mysteries when they have no right at all to do so. That is why such people need a purification of which St. John of the Cross describes the stages. Atheism and incredulity constitute an equivalent of such a purification.
“Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?”
"Postmodernism and Human Rights" (2000), p. 58
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Context: I now define "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival." I won't argue with philosophers or theologians who choose to use the word "moral" to mean something else, but I do not think anyone can define "behavior that tends toward extinction" as being "moral" without stretching the word "moral" all out of shape.
