
PREMIUM-Ep. 283: Alain Badiou on Love (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is the Humanity Function Applied to Human Beings?
The humanity function applies to human beings? Is tautologist or redundant? I think there's a nuance here. Capital h doesn't exist in them as acts, because what makes them humans is the operation of the truth functions that operate on that space of axis. So they're correct numinal humans, or punative humans, or whatever you want to say. And basely sayng that as beings, they don't have any definition as humans, aside from the interaction of each function. Yes. There's no asdin you said, it's not a truth function. You can be a painter or poet or a militant, but you can't be a humanity you can't. It
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