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diff --git a/essays/introduction.tex b/essays/introduction.tex index 9890bda..721d241 100644 --- a/essays/introduction.tex +++ b/essays/introduction.tex @@ -168,13 +168,13 @@ which is useful irrespective of whether one likes it; that is, which is useful independently of whether it produces emotional gratification. We can now consider the following principle. \enquote{spontaneously and -without any prompting to sweep human culture aside and to carry out +without any prompting: to sweep human culture aside and to carry out elaborate, completely self-justifying activities.} Relative to the social context of the individual's activities, this principle is absurd. We have no reason to respect the eccentric hobbyist, or the person who engages in arbitrary antisocial acts. If an action is to have more than merely personal significance, it must have a social justification, as is explained in On Social Recognition. -In the light of The Flaws Underlying Beliefs and the brend theory, however, +In the light of \essaytitle{The Flaws Underlying Beliefs} and the \term{brend} theory, however, the principle mentioned above does become valid when it is interpreted correctly, because it becomes necessary to invent ends as well as means. The activity must provide an objective value, but this value will no longer be |