Frases de Carl Schmitt

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“Correctly understood, the phrase “tyranny of values” may supply the key to the understanding that all thinking about values only foments and intensifies the old and endless struggle between convictions and interests. Not much is gained by what the modern philosophy of values acknowledges as the “fundamental relationship,” according to which, occasionally the lower value may be preferred to the higher value, because that is the prerequisite of the higher value. All that points only to the confusion that affects the whole argumentation about values, which continually gives rise to new relations and points of view, thereby the position is always maintained from which the opponent is reproached that he does not heed the manifest values; or, in other words, he is disqualified as value-blind. The polemical utilization of the word “blind” is adequate to the logic of values as long as it is concerned with the systems of reference that it will build up out of viewpoints, standpoints, and vantage-points.”

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Carl Schmitt

"The Tyranny of Values" (1959)

“The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.”

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Carl Schmitt

Political Theology (1922), Ch. 3 : Political Theology

“The state as the decisive political entity possesses an enormous power: the possibility of waging war and thereby publicly disposing of the lives of men. The jus belli contains such a disposition. It implies a double possibility: the right to demand from its own members the readiness to die and unhesitatingly to kill enemies.”

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Carl Schmitt livro The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political (1927)

“All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil.”

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Carl Schmitt livro The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political (1927)

“The concept of the state presupposes the concept of the political.”

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Carl Schmitt livro The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political (1927)

“What remains is the remarkable and, for many, certainly disquieting diagnosis that all genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i. e., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.”

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Carl Schmitt livro The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political (1927)