ZIZ015 The Return to Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Immaterial Principle of the Mind
I think there's a better Aristotelian account. The Catholics believe in natural law. And what is natural law? We've got to construct that our bodies are in nature this way, and we shouldn't fuck with them. A lot of them will say that the functional dynamic of the body is the condition for you to have in the immaterial principle of the mind. So if you change the functional dynamics, you run it the same possibility as killing somebody in terms of manipulating that principle. That's tricky because you know that here again, as if you are truly an orthodox in the good sense now, Christian, I think you should reject this. One priest gave me an intelligent metaphor
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