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Lacanian Ethics

Žižek And So On

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The Difference Between Drive and Desire

Buddhism is caught kind of radically between a minimalist and a maximalist ethics, where on the one hand, it's about changing your perspective on reality. And also this kind of, like what you're saying with the Bodhisattva, a radical change in reality that you want to bring others into this into Nirvana, basically. So he brings drive into it. The point of the drive is the continuation of the drive itself, not its specific contents. Right? Because Nirvana is like a weird kind of side of impossibility, which is prohibited by your selfishness.

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