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9781 | Tolerance and love are strategies to avoid encountering our neighbours [Zizek] |
Full Idea: All this preaching about tolerance, love for one's neighbour and so on, are ultimately strategies to avoid encountering the neighbour. | |
From: Slavoj Zizek (Conversations, with Glyn Daly [2004], §2) | |
A reaction: I have begun to wonder whether some such motivation underlies the modern obsession with raising huge sums for charity. |
22784 | Love is ethical life in its natural form [Hegel] |
Full Idea: Love is a feeling, that is, ethical life in its natural form. | |
From: Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 158 add) | |
A reaction: For Hegel the less natural forms are more abstract - such as the categorical imperative. Does this imply that intellectual beings should extend the feeling of love into more abstract forms, such as virtues or principles or ideals? |