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  The term when I took that course, I was thrilled. I had been published in a weekly paper in California. My short story “Night without Ending” got attention from a Los Angeles critic and was deemed “promising.” So, I entered the course with a light heart and substantial self-esteem. The professor of the Institution was holding a welcoming seminar all by himself, where he perhaps wanted to see if there were any talented minds among the newcomers. There were approximately fifteen new students. Like most professors in the Institution, this professor did not hold Theoretical and Practical Philosophy separated very much, as they initially ought to be. Still, he immediately started to demonstrate a problem that a theoretical philosopher might very much appreciate but not a practical one. Five of his colleagues lurked in the doorway to the hall, all with broad smiles on their faces. It turned out that in this Institution, people were always SMILING at all events, during all...

  Ett   FÖRORD, ett mellan, och ett EFTER och ett bredvid                                 Kaj Bernh. Genell 2022     Det sägs att Sigmund Freuds hustru, Martha Freud, inte trodde att hennes man alls ägnade sig åt psykoterapi med sina patienter, men att denne faktiskt hela dagarna, då han inte alls ville bli störd av något som helst, allra minst barnens pianospel, som därför fick helt cacheras …, sysslade med någon slags …pornografi. Nu kan det ju förvisso vara svårt att avgöra exakt vad som är pornografi. Helt visst är till exempel psykoanalys för somliga, alldeles oavsett allt annat, pornografi, för andra inte. Ty vad som är porr för den ena, är det bland annat alltså ofta inte alls porr för den andre. Somliga går igång på metafysik, andra på kärleksromaner. Nå. P...

  TWELVE       K. Bernh. Genell            CHAPTER ONE                          Revenge       “Dear Tinkville News!   I am writing to you to clarify the murder of Mr. Subert. This is a symbolic murder. Even if I had a grudge against Mr. Suber, that was not the reason I killed him a couple of hours ago. No, by slaying him, I wanted to make a statement and urge society to change. For a thorough intellectual interpretation, one must understand happiness calculus, as Jeremy Bentham and the entire Philosophy of Hedonist Utilitarianism put forth. According to this, one principle should guide the philosopher and every person: We must seek maximum happiness for a maximum number of people. Here, the life of Mr. Suber weighed very little against the lives of every little chil...