Alain Badiou
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"Alain Badiou" is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Badiou has written about the concepts of being, truth and the Subject (philosophy)/subject in a way that, he claims, is neither postmodern nor simply a repetition of Age of Enlightenment/modernity. Politically, Badiou is committed to the far Political left/left, and to the Communism/communist tradition.

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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

The ethics of Truth always returns, in precise circumstances, to fighting for the True against the four fundamentals forms of Evil: obscurantism, commercial academicism, the politics of profit and inequality, and sexual barbarism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.