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Ennui wrote

Humanism is as far away from God as one can get without abandoning the power dynamic of Western moralism. The benefit of humanism is that one maintains the ability to feel superior, probably.

I’ve noticed that many of the most important Western ethical works—most important to a Uni philosophy department, that is—are just humanism under different names. Even the existentialists have yet to throw out their human exceptionalism. Everything ethical sounds exactly like a speech by Camus: boring.

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