Expanding the self is needless once sacrifice gives way to relationship

Evidence

Although in other contexts Naess does recognise the difference between self-sacrifice and the other-orientated actions of self-in-relationship (Blum 1980:76; Naess 1988b:23), he does not notice that this makes the entire strategy of expanding the self unnecessary. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 786

Categorization

• XREF: Directly continues Plumwood’s own critique of self-merger identification as arrogance (ch 28) and ecofeminist self-in-relationship model. — connects to: Expanding the self to include others still denies their distinctness — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 681; Care for particular places and creatures sustains rather than blocks global concern — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 709