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Ethical and/or political.
Ethical maturity means seeing all the colors; political maturity means seeing in black and white.
Triads.
The aesthetic, the ethical, the political; Heidegger’s Being and Time, Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Badiou’s Being and Event.
The ethical accuses the aesthetic.
Passing a manifold of self-contradictions off as “interesting” is far less demanding than the maintenance of self-consistency.
Three orientations.
The aesthetic represents the interesting. The ethical concerns the important. The existential discloses the absurd.
To love is to suspend criticism.
The intellectual and political cannot be subtended by love, as their affective ground is respect. In this respect, their contrast with aesthetics and ethics is undeniable.
Art of Aphorism 
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