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March 3, 2006
I'm on the road to Sydney for a working weekend. I will post tomorrow, if I have time and access to the internet.
In Nietzsche and Philosophy Gilles Deleuze says that utilitarianism is an outmoded or outdated philosophy. He asks:
To whom is an action useful or harmful? Who considers action from the standpoint of its utility or harmfulness, its motives, and consequences. .
Good questions. The answer is immediately forthcoming:
Not the one who acts: he does not "consider" action. It is rather the third party, the sufferer of the specator. He is the persosn who considers the actin he does not perform ---precisely because he does not perform it---as something to evaluate from the standpoint of the advantage which he draws or can draw from it....We can guies s the source of "utility": It is source of all passive concepts in general,ressentiment, nothing but the requirements of ressentiment.
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