
ZIZ005 Plea for Ethical Violence (2004)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Impurity of Livenas
When face to face with the other, I am infinitely responsible to him. This is for livenas as it were the original ethical constellations. For livenas, ethics is not about life, but about something more than life. It is at this level that livenas locates the gap that separates Judaism and Christianity. Livenasian's fundamental ethical task in Christianity is that of how to be without being a mother. Here is the quote from livenas making this point: "A solitary individual is not a tree that grows without regard for everything"
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