Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou Quotes
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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| Birth: | 17th January, 1937 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Philosopher, Professor |
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Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth and the subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of modernity. Politically, Badiou is committed to the far left, and to the communist tradition.
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