Question:<\/p>\n
If preserving the life of the other is a precondition of the self, are we not still arguing out of self preservation?<\/p>\n
Judith Butler: (at 6:33<\/a>)<\/p>\n If it’s the case that I only am obligated to preserve the life of the other because I must preserve my own life and if my own life is the final reason why I preserve the life of the other then you’re absolutely right (I’m a modernist egological Bush right-winger RT).<\/p>\n But if in preserving the life of the other I am articulating my social and political existence in the relation to the other then I have left an egological framework for a relational one and I have lost my bounded I, or rather recast it as a certain kind of relational practice, so I would be preserving my ‘self’ my new self my recast self as a secondary effect of preserving the life of the other since it would turn out that I am bound.\u00a0 But it would not be for myself rather than the other or on the basis of any other distinction between self and other that that act of preservation would occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: If preserving the life of the other is a precondition of the self, are we not still arguing out of self preservation? Judith Butler: (at 6:33) If it’s the case that I only am obligated to preserve the life of the other because I must preserve my own life and if my own life … Continue reading “precarity question (8)”<\/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":[78,138,38,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-butlerethics","category-ethics","category-precarity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112","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=8112"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8114,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8112\/revisions\/8114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}