Plato’s otherworldly identity serves the master, not only the slave

Evidence

Hence the otherworldly identity is not only the choice which comforts the slave (as Nietzsche assumed) but also the choice of the master, the outcome of the system of domination which sustains both identities. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 379

Categorization

• XREF: Contrarian against the common Nietzschean reading, and links to Plumwood’s ch9 claim that the master relates to dominated others as interchangeable class members. — connects to: Plato’s otherworldly identity framework was engineered to cancel death — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 376; Classical philosophy’s transcendence remained committed to a slave society — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 517; Defining the other as lack incorporates it into the master’s self, precluding real recognition — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 215

Broader Connections

• Classical philosophy’s transcendence remained committed to a slave society #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 517
• Defining the other as lack incorporates it into the master’s self, precluding real recognition #corroborates (0.75) — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 215