PHIL 242 Lecture Notes - Nancy Hartsock, Marilyn French, Immanence
17 Mar 2014
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Every subject posits itself as a transcendence concretely, through projects; it accomplishes its freedom only by perpetual surpassing towards other freedoms; there is no other justification for present existence than its expansion towards an indefinitely open future. Every time transcendence lapses into immanence, there is degradation of existence into in-itself", of freedom into facticity. Statement about what human nature is, what is a good life. Materialism" (as hartsock uses it): the most important forces in politics are material i. e. how we extract, produce, and distribute goods from the natural world. Washing the toilet used by three males, and the floor and walls around it, is, mira thought, coming face to face with necessity. And that is why women were saner than men, did not come up with the mad, absurd schemes men developed: they were in touch with necessity, they had to wash the toilet bowl and floor.
