Anyone who wishes to found an ethic – and his personal ethic – on the notion of alienation needs to have a precise and analytic tool and a consciousness that has been finely honed by the dialectic at his disposal. Only then will he be able to find his way through the labyrinth which is all social life and through the jungle which is bourgeois society; only then will he distinguish between what is "life-enhancing" and what is obscurantist and static in his life. Thus everyone may be able tightly to embrace their own lives, and to love them, without evading any task, fruitful conflict, or useful risk.¹