Indifference
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| 'Kant's famous definition of the beautiful. "That is beautiful," says Kant, "which pleases without interesting." Without interesting! Compare this definition with this other one [...] by Stendhal, who once called the beautiful une promesse de bonheur. Here, at any rate, the one point which Kant makes prominent in the aesthetic position is repudiated and eliminated—le désinteressement. Who is right, Kant or Stendhal?' --Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality |
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Indifference is the condition of apathy, the lack of emotion, motivation, or enthusiasm; a psychological term for a state of indifference.
See also
- Apathy
- Impersonal
- Emotional detachment
- Anomie
- The Time of Indifference by Alberto Moravia
- Insensitive
- Disinterestedness (German: "Gleichgültigkeit" or "ohne interesse") is a key term in the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant.
- L'indifférent
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