RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jacques Lacan, Cosmogony, Theogony
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Abstract: schelling and romantics constructed ucs to overcome the modern split between subjectivity and nature, mind and body. Later schelling modified his notion of the ucs to include the decision to be oneself which must sink beneath consciousness. The ucs for schelling is not a repression, but a condition of the possibility of life and love. S dissociated notions of (1) freedom and (2) consciousness, postulated that an act of freedom = ucs. Schellian responsibility- cannot be fully conscious of my actions. S"s observation of kant, who says that the morally corrupt person is corrupt from the core, their acts express their corrupt character, their. Because freedom is spontaneity, it has no presence in the order governed by causal relations. Therefore, the experience guilt is both necessary and morally culpable. Descartes split nature and subjectivity nature as exterior order of causality, subjectivity as internal order.
