{"id":10810,"date":"2013-04-12T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2013-04-12T08:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T13:13:44","slug":"10810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/12\/10810\/","title":{"rendered":"ethical maxim discourse of master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ethical maxim behind the discourse of the master is perhaps best formulated in the famous verse from Juvenal: &#8216;<em>Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth living.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another version of this credo might be found in Paul Claude!:<span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\"> &#8216;Sadder than to lose one&#8217;s life is it to lose one&#8217;s reason for living.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;Kant with Sade&#8217; Lacan proposes his own &#8216;translation&#8217; of this ethical motto:&#8217;<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;\">desire<\/span>, what is called <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;\">desire<\/span>, <strong>suffices to make life have no sense in playing a coward<\/strong>.&#8217; (EOR 5)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ethical maxim behind the discourse of the master is perhaps best formulated in the famous verse from Juvenal: &#8216;Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori, et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas&#8216; Count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/04\/12\/10810\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ethical maxim discourse of master&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,79,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-discourses","category-ethics_real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10816,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}