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To ask “What ought I to do?” as a philosophical question is to assume that there could be some authoritative answer to that question. If, however, one understands the nature of human action and its place in the world, one will see that there is no such appropriate answer that combines authority with determinateness.
Outside Ethics
Geuss, Raymond.
Lacan’s goal for psychoanalytic treatment, which, in the useful words of Slavoj Žižek, clearly seeks a different version of truth. Lacan’s goal for psychoanalytic treatment, Žižek writes, ‘is not the patient’s wellbeing, successful social life or personal fulfilment, but to bring the patient to confront the elementary co-ordinates and deadlocks of his or her desire’.
Adam Phillips: On Getting the Life You Want
London Review of Books
What I have to do—ethically speaking—takes its cue from what I am. What is good and appropriate in the world is, in the case of an ethical orientation, what is good for me and against the background of my particular identity; hence, it is what enables me to be in agreement with myself. The same holds for collective identities. But what could the answer to the question “Who am I?” possibly contribute to answering the question “What should I do?”? Why should my (or our) internal self-understanding yield an answer to the question of what attitudes and practices constitute a right form of life? And when would one even be—individually or collectively—in agreement with oneself?
Critique of Forms of Life
Rahel Jaeggi;Ciaran Cronin
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