Philosophy Notes

• Geneology

  Historical developments that lead to morality
• Moral judgement repeats cruelty.
• Existentialism


  Existence proceeds essence
• Essence


  What makes something what it is, defines it, fundamental e.g. human soun
• Existence


  Nothing, we simply are, no preloaded definition
• Radical Freedom


  Responsibility for ourselves and for everyone else
• Anguish we cannot escape
• Abandonment means there is no extra author to guide us
• Despair means to act w/o hope
• One is not born, but rather becomes a ___
• We develop into gender roles
• Self Other


  • Man
  • Self
• Natural relation to reality
• Promising


  A real memory of the will
• Punishment->Memory -> Promising -> Responsibility/Conscience

  1. Punishment makes promising possible by literally inscribing "I will nots" in human flesh

  2. Punishment comes before, not after, the ability to promise

  3. Punishment is done for the pleasure of those wronged, not because the punished "could have known/done better"
• Sovereign individual


  The figure that illustrates the ability to choose for ourselves, which requires the type of memory involved in promising
• Morality

  A development of cruelty, where moral judgment repeats the cruelty at the origins of morality
• What does this mean for women under patriarchy?

  That it is a male dominated society.
• The Racial Contract 


  White: full human/civilized | Non-white: subhuman/inferior
• The State of Nature is a _____

  Non white figure
• White supremacy as political system which means?

  Different distribution of wealth/opportunities, benefits/burdens, rights/duties.
• Responsibility/conscience


  Autonomy as well as freedom