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Aristeia

"He who acts," Goethe remarks to Eckermann, "is always unjust; nobody is just but the one who reflects."

the ethical significance of their respective actions.

The recourse to good intentions as a unifying and justifying principle obscures this social relevance of political action, which, as such, interferes with the life of others in a way in which private action, as such, generally does not. The well- intentioned political dilettante may indeed work more evil than the ill-intentioned professional politician, and the test of good intention would destroy rather than clarify

As Samuel Buller put it: "Reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct un- corrected by reason."

Sociologi som post hoc ergo propter hoc.

-proudhon