I think you could consult the literature of these very people; that is to say, European individualist anarchists. Because in consulting it, I have very rarely seen this appeal, on the one hand, to the ego (which seems more like a thing of American individualist anarchism) and have often seen texts precisely opposing these questions. In the literature added on Wikisource (sorry, it's in French but relatively short), you have 'Byzantinism and Sloth' (Byzantinisme et Avachissement) and 'The Moralists' (Les Moralistes) by Michel Antoine, which touch upon these questions. In the first of these two texts, he directly opposes all tendencies of anarchism that he perceives as denying the anarchist idea in their essence – and in my opinion, what you're describing probably falls within that; in 'The Moralists', he shows how anarchists ARE moralists (in the positive sense of the term) and that, consequently, one cannot do everything and cannot contradict the anarchist idea internally, or else one isn't an anarchist. I think these two texts could be interesting because they are written by one of the main figures of European individualist anarchism and illegalism, which are the movements generally associated with this idea of the ego, etc.
'I won't dwell further on the absurdity of proclaiming that good and evil are meaningless, and therefore it's impossible to differentiate between these two terms. If that were the case, we'd have no reason to hate tyranny, authority, and violence, nor to prefer liberty over slavery. A kick in the ass and a caress would be equivalent, and we wouldn't be able to say if it's better to cultivate chervil than hemlock.
Frankly, it's pathetic to have to refute such nonsense. I recognize in this the influence of that unfortunate philosopher whose immeasurable pride led him to madness. But while Nietzsche's dementia may excuse him, our reason must reject him. A sick man, and what's more, sick in the intellect, cannot be an authority on intellectual matters.'
- The Moralists, Michel Antoine
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In reply to I guess you could go with ... by Anonmause (not verified)
I think you could consult the literature of these very people; that is to say, European individualist anarchists. Because in consulting it, I have very rarely seen this appeal, on the one hand, to the ego (which seems more like a thing of American individualist anarchism) and have often seen texts precisely opposing these questions. In the literature added on Wikisource (sorry, it's in French but relatively short), you have 'Byzantinism and Sloth' (Byzantinisme et Avachissement) and 'The Moralists' (Les Moralistes) by Michel Antoine, which touch upon these questions. In the first of these two texts, he directly opposes all tendencies of anarchism that he perceives as denying the anarchist idea in their essence – and in my opinion, what you're describing probably falls within that; in 'The Moralists', he shows how anarchists ARE moralists (in the positive sense of the term) and that, consequently, one cannot do everything and cannot contradict the anarchist idea internally, or else one isn't an anarchist. I think these two texts could be interesting because they are written by one of the main figures of European individualist anarchism and illegalism, which are the movements generally associated with this idea of the ego, etc.
'I won't dwell further on the absurdity of proclaiming that good and evil are meaningless, and therefore it's impossible to differentiate between these two terms. If that were the case, we'd have no reason to hate tyranny, authority, and violence, nor to prefer liberty over slavery. A kick in the ass and a caress would be equivalent, and we wouldn't be able to say if it's better to cultivate chervil than hemlock.
Frankly, it's pathetic to have to refute such nonsense. I recognize in this the influence of that unfortunate philosopher whose immeasurable pride led him to madness. But while Nietzsche's dementia may excuse him, our reason must reject him. A sick man, and what's more, sick in the intellect, cannot be an authority on intellectual matters.'
- The Moralists, Michel Antoine