Many people conflate happiness with cutting your losses and admitting defeat, but without admitting what they have lost. They then adopt knowledge such as suits their need for palliatives. But they call it a right to 'get on in life' and have a bit of comfort, even imagining that the their attitudes, which only follow from their situation, allow them the opportunity for catharsis that they have clearly been complicit in denying themselves.
I assume that something has been lost in the first instance, of course. I would call it the efficacy of a moral imagination capable of straddling the divide between that which is the case and that which we would like to be the case. Between is and ought. Between desire and satiety. Radical knowledge is that which can re-open that gap, that wound and spur desires which we cannot satisfy in the circumstances we find ourselves in.
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I assume that something has been lost in the first instance, of course. I would call it the efficacy of a moral imagination capable of straddling the divide between that which is the case and that which we would like to be the case. Between is and ought. Between desire and satiety. Radical knowledge is that which can re-open that gap, that wound and spur desires which we cannot satisfy in the circumstances we find ourselves in.
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