Silhouette
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The subject-object problem links to the perjury embedded in the marriage vow: "forsaking all others," let alone the attempt at an ethicopolitical argument that copulates church with state.
'The very idea of an "ethical experience" in the face-to-face encounter is untenable, since any encounter always excludes others and thus exercises discrimination....the third "does not wait" and undermines the primacy of ethics....a pledge of unconditional fidelity necessarily commits perjury, either by betraying its relation to other others in favor of a certain other or inversely.....an arche-perjury or arche-betrayal that makes us doubly exposed to violence: exposed to undergo it but also to exercise it."
(Radical Atheism, pp. 98-9)
Was gonna ask if he's on the right planet actually Jar Jar.Are you in the right thread?