on sensitivity (not)
Humanitarianism is found only in a small minority of highly sensitive people…. Such humanitarianism is too easily confused with a somewhat different sentiment, that of prudence…. But it is one thing to condemn pornographic films because they are immoral and sully the viewer’s soul; it is quite another to condemn them because they turn the human persons who are their actors into objects.
[Gladiators] … aroused ambivalent feelings, both attraction and a prudent repulsion. On the one hand there was the taste for watching people suffer, the fascination with death, the pleasure of seeing corpses; on the other hand there was the anguish of seeing that within the very confines of public order it was legal to murder not only enemies or criminals but others as well. Society no longer provided a bulwark against the law of the jungle.
- pg. 148, “Foucault Revolutionizes History” - Paul Veyne, transl. Catherine Porter - 1978
[Gladiators] … aroused ambivalent feelings, both attraction and a prudent repulsion. On the one hand there was the taste for watching people suffer, the fascination with death, the pleasure of seeing corpses; on the other hand there was the anguish of seeing that within the very confines of public order it was legal to murder not only enemies or criminals but others as well. Society no longer provided a bulwark against the law of the jungle.
- pg. 148, “Foucault Revolutionizes History” - Paul Veyne, transl. Catherine Porter - 1978
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