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"For since we are the outcome of earlier generations, we are also the outcome of their aberrations, passions and errors, and indeed of their crimes; it is not possible to wholly free oneself from this chain. If we condemn these aberrations and regard ourselves as free of them, this does not alter the fact that we originate in them. The best we can do is confront our inherited and hereditary nature with our knowledge of it, and through a new, stern discipline combat our inborn heritage and implant in ourselves a new habit, a new instinct, a second nature, so that our first nature withers away. It is an attempt to give oneself, as it were a posteriori, a past in which one would like to originate in opposition to that in which one did originate: - always a dangerous attempt because it is so hard to know the limit to denial of the past and because second natures are usual weaker than the first. What happens all too often is that we know the better but cannot do it. But here and there a victory is nonetheless achieved, and for the combatants, for those who employ critical history for the sake of life, there is even a noteworthy consolation: that of knowing that this first nature was once a second nature and that every victorious second nature will become a first."
F. Nietzsche, 'On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life', in F. Nietzsche, Untimely Meditations.
"You see, if there was no resistance, there would be no power relations. Because it
would simply be a matter of obedience. You have to use power relations to refer to the situation where you're not doing what you want. So resistance comes first, and resistance remains superior to the forces of the process; power relations are obliged to change with the resistance. So I think resistance is the main word, the key word, in this dynamic." M. Foucault, 'Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity', in M. Foucault, Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault.
Country
France
Interests
Linguistic interfaces. Political Philosophy. Epistemology, philosophy of Sciences, theology.
