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The love of neighbor commandment functions to preserve the self-other distinction

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aliases@sartre_being_1943, loc. 1462, @hallaq_restating_2018, loc. 464

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The love of neighbor commandment functions to preserve the self-other distinction

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Being-for-others (ĂȘtre-pour-autrui). The third ekstasis (q.v.) of the For-itself. There arises here a new dimension of being in which my Self exists outside as an object for others. The For-others involves a perpetual conflict as each For-itself seeks to recover its own Being by directly or indirectly making an object out of the other. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1462 (#complicates, via linked claim)

This rationality, of a specific type and structure, may not be disentangled from modern forms of life, the very forms that have led to the state of current crises. The crises have clearly been precipitated by a human agency (and no other), one that is self-professedly rational, but also one whose quest for knowledge is garnered, as Scheler put it aptly, for systematic control and domination. And it is this sovereign rationality that has dictated the way we construe ourselves as well as the Other in the world, including Islam and its history and cultures. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 464 (#complicates, via linked claim)

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  • XREF: connects to: An order counts as an imperative only by combining free assumption with preserved exteriority — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on
, 1239; The totality of for-itself and in-itself differs from for-others by its absence of reciprocity; A rationality geared to domination shapes how we construe the Other — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of
, 464 (+5 more)

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