From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: FW: sideways - incapacity Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:29:15 -0600 Steve, I wasn't arguing for a utilitarian morality. I think the points I was making could easily be re-inscribed in terms of Kant's categorical imperative, Schopenhauer's compassion or even Badiou's ethics of truth. I also think that in concrete terms we arrive at similar positions - against institutionalized religion, corporate agri-business and the economic development that leads to global warming and the destruction of species of wildlife. My problem with your position is simply that I don't see how you really get there from here. How does your stance on the equivalence of animals inform any real ethical and political action? It seems like a mere abstraction to me because I don't think Deleuze's plane of immanence applies to the level of species. The virtual involution of evolution takes place ontologically before the species begins. That is why I call your stance a form of pantheism. It is the Hegelian night is which all cats (even George) are gray. eric --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---
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