Feb. 13th, 2007

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Philosophy begins with the demand that truth and goodness coincide. Leibniz held the right to consist in an order behind the appearances that only God -- at the moment -- knows how to decode. Marx held the right to consist in an order that humankind could establish only after it stops looking for signs of an order created by someone else. In practice, the difference between them could not be greater. In metaphysics, they were closer than they seem, for each denied that appearances are final. Whether they placed it in heaven or in history, each believed there was another court of appeal.

(from Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought)

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