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Søren Kierkegaard, whose dissertation examined Socratic irony, found in Socrates a pagan anticipation of his belief that Christianity is a lived doctrine of almost impossible demands; but he also regarded Socratic irony as a deeply flawed indifference to morality.
Boyd has a sneaking fondness for bad behavior, which he has indulged since his first novel, "A Good Man in Africa," a Wodehousian farce about a deceitful, lecherous, incompetent, spiteful postcolonial diplomat whose abject indifference to morality and even, at times, to decorum becomes kind of endearing.
Certainly, his indifference to morality is shocking.
Yet it's this indifference to morality that makes the character of Ripley so disturbing to her readers - and, I believe, so instructive.
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One should expect to have one's face rubbed in the worst aspects of humanity — the selfishness and greed, the vain morality and indifference to other people's suffering.
Jesus' morality has a brash, sidewise indifference to conventional ideas of goodness.
At first (under Uzziah, Ahaz's prosperous grandfather) his message emphasized the social and religious corruption of Judah, stressing the new prophetic themes of indifference to God (which went hand in hand with a thriving cult) and the fateful importance of social morality.
Intended largely as a condemnation of the "politicization" of morality by American conservatives, the book presents a cartoon version of their perspective, and, with its odd indifference to argument, loses many opportunities to persuade.
Indifference to me.
He has a robust indifference to eternity.
Schaller deplores the indifference to conservation.
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