The changing boundaries bonus bet365 humans and animals: Agamben’s open vision
December 24, 2019 09:23 Source: "Chinese bonus bet365 Journal" Issue 1843, December 24, 2019 Author: Chen Ying

Agamben in the book "Open: Man and Animal",In-depth discussion of biopolitics initiated by Foucault,Continue to answer the question raised by Arendt: There are some evils in bonus bet365 beings that should not be forgiven in any case,How should we prevent this evil from happening again?He pointed out the changes in bonus bet365 political meaning between bonus bet365 nature and animal nature,The political practice of determining that the existing bonus bet365 mechanism cannot exclude humans from retreating into animals,And indicate that the answer to the question depends on transcending the confrontation between bonus bet365 nature and animality,And this kind of transcendence is still inseparable from the path of self-improvement of bonus bet365 nature。

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Thinking about some bonus bet365 behaviors that must be based on the foundation of life。"At War,People have become ‘sober lambs committed to the slaughterhouse’”,In Hitler’s eyes,Jews are “people who need to be eliminated like fleas”。At the most basic level of life,Lamb、The flea is a metaphor,Also the name of a person,Metaphor is a way of describing,The name indicates the actual state of existence。You can kill at will,Life is only the difference between life and death;Control life,The boundary between humans and animals no longer exists,Both belong to the same category。The assertion of bonus bet365 nature based on traditional rationalism and humanism,The boundary between humans and animals is clearly visible,But this kind of "seeing" has choices、Something to ignore,Blurred non-bonus bet365 and non-animal boundaries enter the unspeakable gray area。Agamben pointed out,In the face of reality,We have to face naked life、Facing inhumanity,Having to face zoomorphs or humanoids。Therefore,We need words,Need something to say,Need to understand,Need to think deeply,Need to deconstruct the overlooked “view” first。Bare Life,The unnamed life,Because it is nameless,So "neither is an animal life,Not a bonus bet365 life”,The only characteristic of which is self-denial,“Split from oneself、Rejected by oneself”。On the foundation of bare life,Humans make distinctions、Name、Accommodate、Exclusion,Create the relationship between negation and negation。

"Among people - people are divided into humans and non-humans,Divided into animals and humans。”How humans become non-bonus bet365?This distinction does not occur between humans and animals,It happens within people。Body and Spirit、Sanity and Madness、Elements of calculation and virtue coexist in people,The bonus bet365 side is bonus bet365 nature,The other side is animality,Becoming more bonus bet365,Take a step back and become an animal。"You can degenerate into a lower species,That’s the beast;You can also follow the decision of your own soul,Reborn into a more advanced species,That is the god。”When one faces the light,Longing for the Divine,The bonus bet365 side appears,Vice versa,bonus bet365 nature retreats,Animal nature appears,falls into indistinguishable darkness。“Not all flesh will be saved。”as flesh,We are just bare lives;As a bonus bet365 being,We need to step out of the purity of the flesh,Giving spirit to the body,Giving humanity to the body,Given the value of the body as a bonus bet365 being。The flesh needs to be saved as a bonus bet365 being。However,In the political practice of division,Not all bodies will be saved,Non-bonus bet365 beings are naked lives that have not been saved。

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 What is a bonus bet365 being?This mystery of the Sphinx has puzzled bonus bet365 thought for a long time。“A person is a person who needs to know himself as a person、The animal that makes itself bonus bet365。”In biological nature,Humans are still animals。Many humanities scholars regard humans as rational animals,Or animals regarded as symbols,Or considered as a tool-using animal,All these understandings of bonus bet365 beings take animals as the starting point。Agamben pointed out,People need to distinguish themselves from animals、Split off。The Oracle of Delphi—“Know Yourself”,Mark the dual identity of a person,bonus bet365 being the subject of knowledge,Another acquaintance;Also a doubter,Another puzzle solver;Also a bettor,The judge again。Enlightenment rationality emphasizes bonus bet365 free will,The result of demonstrating the freedom of the subject with the ability to conquer and control,It is to make enlightenment rationality into instrumental rationality。Technical control of life cannot prevent the control of people themselves,When life chases efficiency and survival of the fittest,People also face the risk of being reduced to naked life,Towards self-differentiation、Self-exclusion and self-elimination。Agamben calls modern people’s self-identification and self-definition bonus bet365 mechanisms。The structuring of life by bonus bet365 mechanisms distinguishes humans from non-humans,This distinction is not only cognitive,It’s more about operation、Political,Also religious。When political structuring meets operational needs,It may become a political expropriation。About what it means to be a bonus bet365 being,With your ruling,There is also his ruling,So,We sometimes have to endure the ridicule of “those apes who pretend to be critics”。

Agamben attempts to define Dasein’s ontology through Heidegger,Looking for hope to break through the paradoxical existence of bonus bet365 beings。Heidegger thinks,“Stone has no world,Animals lack the world,And people build the world”。The difference between humans and animals lies in the difference between "lack" and "building",The lack is passive adaptation,Open to the world;Building is active understanding,The world is open to people。The key difference between humans and animals is “whether” and “understanding”。"Can" means a potential,means you may or may not be so,"Understanding" is the revelation of existence from concealment to unconcealment。"Understanding" is not only about understanding the existence of existing things,It also lies in understanding existence itself,Understand and open yourself,Understand “understand” itself。“Understanding” as potentiality,Oriented to “can” and “cannot”、“Unconcealed” and “Concealed”、The dialectics of “revelation” and “immersion”,The expansion of the former does not exclude the retreat to the latter。Therefore,People’s understanding of themselves,Not only do we need to recognize the differences between humans and animals,Also see the similarities between humans and animals,Understand that people’s distinctive naming of humans and animals does not rule out the possible changes in the boundaries between humans and animals。This is the duality that people in history must bear: the infinite possibilities that bonus bet365 nature opens to the world,And the lack of animal aspects。The further progress of bonus bet365 nature requires examining the dual nature of bonus bet365 beings,The conflict between the mediator’s animality and humanity,Bypassing the possible traps set by animal nature for bonus bet365 nature。

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After pointing out the dual relationship between bonus bet365 nature and animality,Following Heidegger’s thinking,Agamben proposed two solutions to mediate conflicts,“(a) Man’s animality after the end of history is no longer non-revealing,Rather, take on animality and dominate it through technology;(b)人,The Shepherd of Being,Has his own covering,His own animality,This kind of covering is neither covered,Not the object of control,It is thinking as it is”。The first solution goes to the extreme along the path of rational reflection,bonus bet365 animality is recognized by reason、Understanding and Reflection,This animality may never be eradicated,But it can become revealing,Thus suppressed through social and political system design or psychological guidance,Put it under the control of technology。The second solution transcends the opposition between animality and bonus bet365 nature in the state of existence,The reconciliation between the two is "as it is"。

Agamben obviously prefers the second option,He uses the righteous man with the head of an animal as an ontological metaphor for the final reconciliation between bonus bet365 nature and animality。The righteous are the saved,The righteous man with the head of an animal has the head of an animal and the body of a bonus bet365,means the unity of bonus bet365 nature and animal nature。At the beginning of Open: People and Animals,Agamben pointed out with the help of biblical foreshadowing: "On the last day,The relationship between animals and humans will take on a new form,Man himself will also be in harmony with his animal nature。” In the final chapter of Open: People and Animals,Agamben concludes: “The righteous man with the head of an animal,Does not represent a new degradation of the bonus bet365-animal relationship,But as the image of ‘great ignorance’,Let both be external to existence,It is to be redeemed in the sense that there is no need for redemption。”

Then,How to break the “anthropology machine”,Invalidating the conceptual distinction between bonus bet365 nature and animality,Thus creating a system where people and animals can find their place、Everyone is in his own place?Agamben turned to Benjamin,The latter’s “Night of Redemption” and “Frozen Dialectics” signify the complete failure of the anthropological machine。For Benjamin,The night of salvation means that nature is completely self-sufficient,No more participation in bonus bet365 history,Therefore there is no need for repair or redemption,At this time, the dialectic between humans and animals will "solidify"。About those who don’t need fixes,Agamben explains: “What is without repair is something that is what it is in this or that mode,The way of existence entrusted to them without remedy。No matter what it is,None of their conditions need repair: sad or happy,Man and God share the anger, or receive divine grace。What do you look like,What the world looks like – this is the one that doesn’t need fixers。"The result is: "Anthropological machines no longer distinguish between nature and humans,Thereby producing the bonus bet365 through the suspension and capture of the non-bonus bet365... with the mutual suspension of humans and nature,On the Night of Redemption,There is something between humans and nature that we may not have named yet、Neither an animal、Something that is not bonus bet365 either,And sustain yourself in managed relationships。”The so-called “controlled relationship”,It does not refer to the relationship between man controlling nature or nature controlling man,It refers to controlling the relationship between man and nature,Thus realizing that both humans and nature can get what they deserve。Only this,Only in this way can we truly get rid of the binary opposition between bonus bet365 nature and animal nature。Also,At the end of Open: People and Animals,Agamben also hinted at another path in an uncertain tone: the righteous man with the animal head relies on divine grace to obtain salvation。At this time,Divinity no longer negates animality,Animals are included in the aura of God,Traditional bonus bet365 mechanisms no longer work,All "creatures can sit at the Messiah's table of the righteous" and be saved。To this point,Agamben dissolves the boundary between humans and animals,Realized the reconciliation between bonus bet365 nature and animal nature,To the inequality of returning to the level of bare life、Immoral、Powerful criticism of injustice。

(Author’s unit: Institute of Philosophy, Hunan Academy of bonus bet365)

Editor: Zhang Jing
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