Jul 26, 2019
Man, as immortal, is sustained by the incalculable and the un-possessed. He is sustained by non-being. To forbid him to imagine the Good, to devote his collective powers to it, to work towards the realization of unknown possibilities, to think what might be in terms that break radically with what is, is quite simply to forbid him humanity as such
Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, pg. 14