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December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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John Keane's sublime letter of resignation from a German fellowship (on X) includes a quote from Karl Jasper's "The Question of German Guilt" that I had to go find:

"The greater this sensitivity to blame, the greater, as a rule, is the inconsiderate readiness to blame others."
"The greater this sensitivity to blame, the greater, as a rule, is the inconsiderate readiness to blame others. Oddly, sensitivity to blame is very apt to rebound into an urge to confess. Such confessions of guilt-false, because still instinctive and lustful-have one unmistakable external trait: fed by the same will to power as their opposites in the same individual, they betray the confessor’s wish to enhance his worth by his confession, to eclipse others. His confession of guilt wants to force others to confess. There is a touch of aggressiveness in such confessions. Moralism as a phenomenon of the will to power fosters both sensitivity to blame and confessions of guilt, both reproach and selfreproach, and psychologically it causes each of these to rebound into the other."
November 29, 2023 at 10:31 AM