{"id":1716,"date":"2020-02-04T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T10:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2020-02-26T21:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:03:59","slug":"praxis-seminar-session-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/praxis-seminar-session-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy, Session 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Tamara Caraus<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-header\">Centre of Philosophy &#8211; University of Lisbon<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h5><em>\u201cLove Your Neighbour!\u201d \u2013 A Cosmopolitan Demand?<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><strong>11 February 2020, 18:00 h<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Room B6 \u2013 Library Building<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faculty of Arts and Humanities \u2013 University of Lisbon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A common critique of cosmopolitanism is that human motivational drives such as empathy or a sense of fairness cannot be extended to anonymous strangers or to large and distant groups, thus the cosmopolitan motivation can never arise or cannot arise without moral costs, while some accounts of cosmopolitanism speak of a necessity of \u2018metamorphosis\u2019, \u2018self-transformation\u2019, \u2018conversion\u2019, \u2018restructuring of the world view\u2019, etc., as a precondition of becoming cosmopolitan. The hypothesis of this presentation is that the difficulties of being cosmopolitan mirror the difficulties of the command \u2018Love your neighbour as yourself\u2019, and the aim of the presentation is to dismantle the difficulties and demandingness of the command to love your neighbour in order to understand the core of cosmopolitan demandingness. The difficulties of loving the neighbour will be examined by analysing Freud\u2019s account on the un-lovable neighbour in <em>Civilisation and Its Discontents<\/em>, and Lacan\u2019s stance, from his <em>Ethics of Psychoanalysis<\/em>, toward Freud\u2019s reluctance to go beyond the alleged impossibility of loving the neighbour. While Freud\u2019s aversion to the neighbour comes from his belonging to the Aristotelian horizon of ethics, happiness and conception of the good, for Lacan the command to love the neighbour is an excess to this horizon, and the concept of the neighbour is linked to a singular structure <em>extimacy<\/em> which points to a coincidence of something most intimate, intrinsic to us, with something most external and utterly foreign. Thus, the love of the neighbour is always an excess, stretching beyond reciprocity and acknowledging the uncanny strangeness of extimacy. From this perspective, the cosmopolitan metamorphosis\/conversion\/self-transformation presupposes the love of the neighbour as an experience of the excess and as an event of acknowledging extimacy. Thus, as an excessive event, cosmopolitanism is not a platitudinous love of humanity, it remains a difficult stance. The love of the neighbour can be regarded as the \u2018truth\u2019 of cosmopolitanism, however this very demandingness makes room for a radical cosmopolitics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tamara Caraus Centre of Philosophy &#8211; University of Lisbon \u201cLove Your Neighbour!\u201d \u2013 A Cosmopolitan Demand? 11 February 2020, 18:00 h Room B6 \u2013 Library Building Faculty of Arts and Humanities \u2013 University of Lisbon &nbsp; Abstract A common critique of cosmopolitanism is that human motivational drives such as empathy or a sense of fairness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1756,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/praxis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}