Horkheimer’s personal ethics derived from love and appealing to privileged consciences

Evidence

This passage, which combines radical social criticism with Schopenhauer’s pessimism, also indicates the conclusions Horkheimer had drawn for his own behaviour from these sources: to follow the power of love, and to appeal to the bad conscience of the privileged few. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 169

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Horkheimer prized listening to historically important conversations as a rare privilege — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1322; Horkheimer grounded ethics in desire as a fact needing no justification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1464