TRN321H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Bourgeoisie, Frantz Fanon, Anti-Imperialism
1 Mar 2018
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It all comes from kant, the problem for de beauvoir, the trope since kant has been to associate nature with life and desire. If you think about what nature is, you think about life, you are focussing on the biological process of life desire is physiological. This system doesn"t account for the way history moves, in a way that is unpredictable and constantly developing instead of just repeating human process". Kant: humans act according to reason or duty in order to supersede nature. De beauvoir: human is able to transcend nature, othering comes from and is consciousness. That is what makes human consciousness different from animal consciousness. This is why humans have the ability to make religions, philosophies, science and all those things that explain the world and are thus separate from it. Consciousness comes with othering and the most important realm of othering is. Othering nature, this is necessary for human survival.
