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+Traditional notions of liberation are inadequate for living an ethical life. We must not only liberate ourselves, we must also learn to live as liberated selves. The aff’s focus on the processes of liberation without any consideration of what a free and liberated person would live like and the habits that person needs is completely inadequate. Foucault writes, |
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+“I shall be a little ... desire must be set free.”(113-114) |
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+The ethical subject is missing in the juridical worldview of the aff. The aff is concerned with truth, with revealing the real practices of exploitation. their arguments are entirely focused on stripping false ideology and then revealing what is really true at the heart of it, as opposed to thinking seriously about the nature of the self. Foucault writes, |
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+“I do not think that ... very matter of ethics.” |
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+Further, having a robust understanding of the self and the importance of the practices of the self is what allows for the differentiation between unjustified exertion of domination and the inevitable reality of power. Foucault writes, |
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+“That is where the ... practices of liberty.” |
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+Philosophy, therefore, must be in part a process of self-creation and analysis of what it is to be a self. It is only then we can start to move toward ethical lives. Foucault writes, |
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+“By spirituality, I ... ideal based on scientificity.” |
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+Thus, my role of the ballot: the judge should vote as to further the development of a care for the self as a practice of freedom. Foucault further describes, |
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+“No, because the risk ... can have over them.” |