When the question of practical philosophy, that is, bringing philosophy in a practical relationship with living, then it has always delved into the question of desire.\u00a0 Why? Butler adds, to live a philosophical life, is to ask the question, is the human individual capable of living a philosophical, hence moral life?\u00a0 Does ‘ought’ imply ‘can’.\u00a0 And if desire were just seen to be an irrational component with no inherent competency, then the moral project would founder.\u00a0 But, on the contrary, moral philosophy has<\/p>\n
On Spinoza<\/p>\n
Hegel is sceptical of the notion of metaphysical closure, Butler adds that Hegel charges Spinoza with erecting a metaphysical system that \u201cexcludes the negativity of self-consciousness, that aspect of human life that precludes its final assimilation into Being …\u201d (10) And it is in Hegel\u2019s critique of Spinoza\u2019s over-theistic mono-mania, that is Spinoza\u2019s excluding of \u201cconsciousness\u2019s own negativity\u201d that we find hegel\u2019s original contribution to the formulation of desire<\/p>\n
A very nice summary of the Phenomenology<\/p>\n
Spinoza\u2019s metaphysics takes the point of view of the completed system as its starting point, but Hegel\u2019s Phenomenology<\/em> poses the question of how this system is known, and how the knower comes to know himeself as part of this system.\u00a0 In other words, Hegel wants to know how the movement of human knowledge, the negativity of self-consciousness, comes to be understood as necessary for the constitution of the system itself and further, how the necessity of human negativity confirms the impossiblity of that system\u2019s completion and closure\u00a0 (12).<\/p>\n For Butler, no doubt heavily influenced by the French reading of Hegel, the negativity of self-consciousness is desire.\u00a0 Desire is the negative dialectic. \u00a0Of which she poses the question to Hegel as to whether he is \u201cguilty of silencing the power of the negative?\u201d (14).<\/p>\n The deceptive pursuit of the Absolute is not a vain “running around in circles,” but a progressive cycle which reveals every deception as permitting some grander act of synthesis<\/strong>, an insight into yet more regions of interrelated reality<\/strong> (22).<\/p>\n Desire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Nothing just appears ex nihilo<\/em> for Hegel, “‘Appearance’ is but one explicit or actual moment in the development of a phenomenon.\u00a0 In the Phenomenology<\/em>, a given phenomenon appears in the context of a given configuration of the world.\u00a0 In the case of desire, we must ask, what kind of world makes desire possilbe? What must the world be like for desire to exist?<\/strong>” (24).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the question of practical philosophy, that is, bringing philosophy in a practical relationship with living, then it has always delved into the question of desire.\u00a0 Why? Butler adds, to live a philosophical life, is to ask the question, is the human individual capable of living a philosophical, hence moral life?\u00a0 Does ‘ought’ imply ‘can’.\u00a0 … Continue reading “introduction summary”<\/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":[78,111,100],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-desire","category-hegel","tag-subjectsdesire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}