The essay blames intellectuals for leaving the world of unselfish thought and abstract, timeless values to engage in political battle—a plea against the adoption by the “clerics” of “political passions » race, nation, class or party i.e. anti-Semitism, xenophobia, nationalism, militarism, "bourgeoisism", Marxism and so on, right and left. Benda y fustige "the tendency for action, the thirst for immediate result, the sole concern for the goal, the contempt of argument, the excess, the hatred, the fixed idea", in short, everything that makes the political passion of action men (the "secular") and all that who must stay stranger to the scholar and the moralist, that is, the clerk. However, it does not condemn the commitment of the intellectual, but demands that the intellectual does not go down to the public square and intervene in the secular debate only to make the cleric's abstract and selfless ideals triumph: the truth, the justice science, reason, intellectual and social freedom. Thus he does not deny anything, for example, of his dreyfusard commitment, since it was to fight for truth and justice, clerical values, in disregard of order and political contingencies, secular values.
Interesting paper: "The most influential justification of individual property rights is the Propertarian Argument. It is the idea that the institution of private property renders everyone better off, and crucially, even the worst-off members of society. A recent critique of the Argument is that it relies on an anthropologically false hypothesis – the idea, following Thomas Hobbes, that life in the state of nature is one of widespread scarcity and violence to which property rights are a solution. The present article seeks to reformulate this Anthropological Objection in a way that more directly addresses Hobbes’ original argument. It then shows that private property is justified to the extent that it allows anyone to reclaim their free time."
Que me lembre eu não aprendi que o Colombo fosse um herói, mas agora querem fazer dele um vilão.
