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The second kind of facsimile of happiness is associated with cognition. Thus Adorno takes as the motto of one of the three parts of his Minima Moralia a statement he attributes to F. H. Bradley: “When everything is bad, it must be good to know the worst.”
Outside Ethics
Geuss, Raymond.
Under these assumptions, we seem to have identified an important global test for social and political institutions and theories: if either does not respect the claim that failure to address a serious global threat is a criticism of it, and a potentially fatal one, then it is inadequate and must be rejected.
A Perfect Moral Storm
Stephen M. Gardiner
Rorty wonders more simply – and his ordinary language and straightforwardness are of a piece with his commitments – how we might speak and write in a way that will get us lives we want and can value, assuming, unlike Freud, that wanting is something we can do more or less well. So Rorty can also ask of Freud and his followers, does the language game, the profession of psychoanalysis, help them get the life they want; and we can add, what are the good reasons they have for wanting this form of life? How does including the unconscious or Freud’s account of sexuality or the Oedipus Complex in your image of yourself make your life better – and better in what sense? __Any idea of the life we want is inextricable from the question of who it is we want to be judged by.__
Adam Phillips: On Getting the Life You Want
London Review of Books
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