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ObjectionThe charge of resignation
Focusing on oneself can lead to accepting what ought to be changed.
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- The places our judgments on one side and almost everything else on the other: illness, poverty, injustice, the social order. All of that, it invites us to take in without letting it disturb our peace.
- Yet many of these so-called inevitabilities are nothing of the sort: illness recedes before medicine, destitution before action, injustice before those who fight it. To deem them beyond our power in advance is sometimes to be mistaken about that power.
- The risk is then moral as much as practical: a wisdom that soothes by turning its gaze from what could be corrected looks like a consolation for those who give up. put it in a single stroke: philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.
Therefore So the dichotomy of control, by drawing the line of the inevitable too soon, risks christening as wisdom what is only resignation.
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