- A quote from Letter to the Father by Franz Kafka.
- Max Horkheimer and Theodor W Adorno, “Dialettica dell’Illuminismo”, Torino, Einaudi, 1996 pg11.
- Weak thought‘ (pensiero debole) – A label applied to the work of Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo – is an attempt to understand and re-configure traces from the history of thought in ways that accord with postmodern conditions. In doing so, the aim of ‘weak thought‘ is to create an ethic of ‘weakness‘.
- The title of a book by the German philosopher Hans Blumenberg, 1979.
- Total and totalitarian ideologies present themselves as global conceptions of life that define the significance and ends of individual and collective existence – a sort of secular religion (Emilio Gentile, “Total and Totalitarian Ideologies”, Oxford University, 2013).
- Relativism is the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist only in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not absolute. It lacks a concept of guiding principles of right or wrong. One of the points of morality is to guide our lives, tell us what to do, what to desire, what to object to, what character qualities to develop and which ones not to develop. Relativism removes this guidance.
- See Second book of Samuel 12,7