Review of Applied Ethics

"Kafka's Motorbike: A searing vision of the wounds our century has inflicted on traditional masculinity. It's positively Vonnegut-esque" - Bridget Jones.

Spinoza's Ethics - Proposition: "Self contentment can arise from reason, and only that contentment which arises from reason is the highest that can exist".

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Can The Subaltern Speak?: "White men saving brown women from brown men".

Joseph Stalin: "Socialism was Soviet Power plus the electrification of the whole country" - (Stalin's report to the Congress of Soviets in December 1920).

Ralph Waldo Emerson: ‎"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".

Jacques Derrida: "There is nothing outside the text".

Claude Levi-Strauss: "The 'savage' mind has the same structures as the 'civilized' mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere".

Sigmund Freud: The Oedipus complex and the castration complex.

Norbert Elias: Social existence and human behaviour.

Melanie Klein: The first person to use traditional psychoanalysis with young children.

Emile Durkheim: Institutionalized sociology.

Karl Marx: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles".

Max Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Leviticus 11: "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is wholly cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat".



* Title of post inspired by Isabel Dalhousie*