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Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Ambivalence in the Psychoanalytic Theory

Wesley Clark: You have a very nice illustration, alternative illustration, of this point in your critique of both Kant and the consequentialist realities. What I really liked about it was you point out that the mechanism by which you would follow the Kantian model to will that your act be universal or that your will is universal. And essentially what you're saying is that in order to function in those systems, you have to be able to put yourself into the place of the other individual," he says.

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