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Kojève's idea that being human means overcoming and transforming what is given while still bearing its traces.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
For Kojève, being human means negating the given, in Hegel's sense of overcoming: its concrete features still mark us, but we are no longer its captives.
Put simply Kojève: to be human is to "negate" what is given to us, in Hegel's sense of overcoming it. Its concrete features still mark us, but we are no longer trapped by them.
Man, for Kojève, is not a being but a nothingness, and that gap is exactly what leaves room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual.
Put simply Kojève: a human being is not a fixed thing but a kind of "nothingness", and that gap is exactly what makes room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual.
For Beauvoir, creation starts from lack: a person is first of all a negativity, and only that absence opens room to make something positive, oneself included.
Put simply Beauvoir: creating starts from lack. A person begins as an absence, a "negativity", and only that emptiness leaves room to make something positive, oneself included.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
KojèveMan, for Kojève, is not a being but a nothingness, and that gap is exactly what leaves room for freedom: for acting, having a history, being an individual. L16 · 16:22
BeauvoirFor Beauvoir, creation starts from lack: a person is first of all a negativity, and only that absence opens room to make something positive, oneself included. L16 · 21:22
Beauvoir follows the idea that human negativity, a lack, is the precondition for self-creation.
Terms that appear in the same claims.