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“The Subject-Object Problem”
The subject-object problem, a longstanding philosophical issue, is concerned with the analysis of human experience, and of what within experience is “subjective” and what is “objective”.
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Like everything else in the world, we have a nature: we’re bodily, we can’t control what happens around us, and we are constantly the objects of other people’s judgments. Sartre called this part of ourselves “being-in-itself.” But at the same time we’re subjects, or what he, following Hegel, called “being-for-itself”: we make choices about what we do with our bodies and appetites, experience ourselves as the center of our worlds and judge the passing show and other people’s roles in it. For Sartre, the rub is that it’s impossible for us to put these two halves of ourselves together. At any given moment, a person is either an object or a subject.
June 20th, 2010 § Comments Off on Like everything else in the world, we have a nature: we’re bodily, we can’t control what happens around us, and we are constantly the objects of other people’s judgments. Sartre called this part of ourselves “being-in-itself.” But at the same time we’re subjects, or what he, following Hegel, called “being-for-itself”: we make choices about what we do with our bodies and appetites, experience ourselves as the center of our worlds and judge the passing show and other people’s roles in it. For Sartre, the rub is that it’s impossible for us to put these two halves of ourselves together. At any given moment, a person is either an object or a subject. § permalink
“Lady Power”
Nancy Bauer in The New York Times, June 20, 2010
She is referencing Sartre’s book, Being and Nothingness, which discusses being-for-itself.
In order to validate the equation existence = individual = body, contemporary doxa must courageously absorb humanity into a position vision of animality.
September 9th, 2006 § Comments Off on In order to validate the equation existence = individual = body, contemporary doxa must courageously absorb humanity into a position vision of animality. § permalink
“Bodies, Languages Truths”
Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.
Conversely, it happens that movement, passing from soul to body and from body to soul, propagates itself indefinetely in a locus of anxiety certainly closer to that space where Malebranche placed souls than to that in which Descartes situated bodies.
January 3rd, 1965 § Comments Off on Conversely, it happens that movement, passing from soul to body and from body to soul, propagates itself indefinetely in a locus of anxiety certainly closer to that space where Malebranche placed souls than to that in which Descartes situated bodies. § permalink
“Madness & Civilization”
Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 90.
“The body’s power is increased or diminished. Emotions are bodily changes plus ideas about these changes which can help or hurt a human.” It happens when the bodily changes we experience are caused primarily by external forces or by a mix of external and internal forces. Spinoza argued that it was much better for a person, himself or herself, to be the only adequate cause of bodily changes, and to act based on an adequate understanding of causes-and-effects with ideas of these changes logically related to each other and to reality; when this happens the person is active, and Spinoza describes the ideas as adequate.
January 1st, 1883 § Comments Off on “The body’s power is increased or diminished. Emotions are bodily changes plus ideas about these changes which can help or hurt a human.” It happens when the bodily changes we experience are caused primarily by external forces or by a mix of external and internal forces. Spinoza argued that it was much better for a person, himself or herself, to be the only adequate cause of bodily changes, and to act based on an adequate understanding of causes-and-effects with ideas of these changes logically related to each other and to reality; when this happens the person is active, and Spinoza describes the ideas as adequate. § permalink
Wikipedia entry on the passions. First two sentences are from Spinoza’s Definitions. On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions, 1883.
Or, they become mesmerized by the mirror-like other and attempt, as they previously had done in controlling their own body, to assert their will.
January 1st, 1807 § Comments Off on Or, they become mesmerized by the mirror-like other and attempt, as they previously had done in controlling their own body, to assert their will. § permalink
Wikipedia, in an article discussing Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic.