Unbelievers as Carriers of Truth. Marx Horkheimer on Sade and the Real Ilustration

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  • Simón Puerta Domínguez

Keywords:

sadism, Enlightenment, reason, nature, moral

Abstract

The Marquis de Sade is one of the biggest figures of the Enlightenment. His frankness is his value of truth as he shows the primacy of the instrumental reason in the constitution of social organization. In his works, the libertines-which consummate his thought, arise against the illustrated ideological contradiction, against the practical reason and the moral principles which don't allow the development of the faculties of control, even
though they don't eliminate them. The French thinker develops in his descriptions of cruelty and primacy of the procedure, in a perfect way the schematism of identity thinking, precisely the thought of the real existing Enlightenment; the enlightened reason reconciles itself with nature, but this last one is as hostile as in the mythical time, and carries out the contradiction of the human process of reason.

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Published

2015-01-19

How to Cite

Domínguez, S. P. (2015). Unbelievers as Carriers of Truth. Marx Horkheimer on Sade and the Real Ilustration. Versiones. Philosophy’s Journal, (4), 103–119. Retrieved from https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/versiones/article/view/21542

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