Evil Is Often Supposed To Be Without

Readers Are Less And Less Seen As Mere Non-writers, The Subhuman "other" Or Flawed Derivative Of The Author; The Lack Of A Pen Is No Longer A Shameful Mark Of Secondary Status But A Positively Enabling Space, Just As Within Every Writer Can Be Seen To Lurk, As A Repressed But Contaminating Antithesis, A Reader.

Virtue Is Something You Have To Get Good At, Like Playing The Trombone Or Tolerating Bores At Parties. Being A Virtuous Human Being Takes Practice; And Those Who Are Brilliant At Being Human (what Christians Call The Saints) Are The Virtuosi Of The Moral Sphere - The Pavarottis And Maradonas Of Virtue.

It Is Easy To See Why A Diversity Of Cultures Should Confront Power With A Problem. If Culture Is About Plurality, Power Is About Unity. How Can It Sell Itself Simultaneously To A Whole Range Of Life Forms Without Being Fatally Diluted?

Historical Determinism Is A Recipe For Political Quietism.

When One Emphasizes, As Jacques Derrida Once Remarked, One Always Overemphasizes.