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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.

Public services are engaged in the remaking of the public domain through practices of design, the policing of space, and the governance of public interactions. They deploy new information technologies as ways of engaging in dialogue with particular publics as well as a means of re-engineering systems of service delivery.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

European imperialism was entirely unlike all other imperial projects in history. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world. The Arabs, to name one example, did not conquer Egypt, Spain or India in order to discover something they did not know. The Romans, Mongols and Aztecs voraciously conquered new lands in search of power and wealth – not of knowledge. In contrast, European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories.

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

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