Friday, December 30, 2022

From an idealism of essence to an idealism of existence

It is possible to "pass from an idealism of essence, opposing the soul to the body, to an idealism of existence, opposing freedom [(la liberte)] to nature, but it is always [still] a question of an idealism of a dualizing tendency.  [Formerly] one opposed the body to the soul, as the inessential to the essential.  From [Sartre and de Beauvoir] on it is nature that one opposes to freedom.  What is refused is still the natural, the most elementary of givens, the corporeal."

     François de Muizon, Homme et femme:  l’altérité fondatrice (Paris:  Éditions du Cerf, 2008), 45, as quoted by Agnès Villié, "La gender theory ou la négation de la différence sexuelle," Bulletin de littérature ecclésiastique 110, no. 1 (Jan-Mar 2009):  67 (55-80), translation mine.
     But is it also indisputable that "indifference to the man-woman difference is . . . intrinsically tied to indifference to the man-God difference"? (198, from 72)

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