Difference And Repetition

Question 1

What are the two orders of generality

Answer 1

Qualitative in equivalence

Quantitative in resemblance

Question 2

What are the two ways to challenge moral law as it is to natural law?

Answer 2

Ascending towards principles: challenging the law as secondary (derived or general)
Denouncing it it as ‘second-hand’

The second is descending towards its consequences, towards the inherent pleasures which the prohibition forbade.

Question 3

How does Kierkegaard say we make repetition in experience?

Answer 3

Contemplation of the mind contemplates the circumstances to ‘extract’ through a matter of acting towards the novelty of a situation which is an obligation of freedom.

Question 4

What is the primary contention against the Stoics in this work?

Answer 4

Their adherence to Physis or ‘nature.’ In this production of repetition.
According to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard repetition is a personal reflection. Bu Kierkegaard of human freedom and by Nietzsche the will.

Question 5

What does the Eternal return command?

Answer 5

That whatever you will, will it in such a manner that you also will it’s eternal return.

Question 6

How does Kierkegaard explain the knight of faith?

Answer 6

As a bourgeois in his Sunday best as to be capable of being mistaken as one.

Question 7

How does Nietzsche say the overman should be ‘played’?

Answer 7

Like an old man playing the part of a beautiful woman in a play. Multiplying the the superimposed masks and inscribing the omnipresence of Dionysus.
The overman resembles the Borgia rather than Parsifal, belongs to the Jesuit order and the Prussian Officer corps.

Question 8

How are Nietzsche and Kierkegaards concepts of grounding repetition opposed to one another?

Answer 8

Nietzsche grounds repetition in the eternal return which focuses on the death of God and the dissolution of self while Kierkegaard dreams of an alliance between God and a self rediscovered.

Question 9

Discrete extension

Answer 9

A budding of individuals absolutely identical in respect to their concept and participating in the same singularity in existence(paradox of doubles or twins)

Question 10

Why is the mask the representation of repetition?

Answer 10

Because representation differs in kind from representation, the repeated cannot be represented: rather, it must always be signified, masked by what signifies it, itself masking what it signifies.

Question 11

What are two forms of repetition?

Answer 11

Repetition as difference without conceptualization.
Repetition difference is taken to be only external to the concept. (Difference represents itself within the same concepts)

Question 12

Contrariety

Answer 12

contrary opposition.
2.
opposition or inconsistency between two things.

Question 13

How does difference keep its own concept apart from being merely reflexively represented across perceptions specific within genera?

Answer 13

Within “catastrophe” i.e. Breaks of continuity in the series of resemblances or impassible fissures between analogical structures

Question 14

Why is being univocal?

Answer 14

It has no analogical structure of perception to identify it across categories

Question 15

How can Nomos (nomadism) still be a univocity?

Answer 15

In the sense that it shifts on the basis of different parts of a single simple presence of being

Question 16

Vice-diction

Answer 16

A difference that sustains an essence between objects but does not contradict them. Example: it is not in the way the being of the equal does not contradict the unequal but vice-dicts it. It contains the essence of not being the unequal and therefore it includes in case what it excludes in essence.

Question 17

Law of continuity

Answer 17

Formulated by Leibniz
“the rules of the finite are found to succeed in the infinite.”[3]
Governs properties affections or complete cases

Question 18

The principle of indiscernibles

Answer 18

The identity of indiscernibles is an ontological principle that states that there cannot be separate objects or entities that have all their properties in common. … Because of its association with Leibniz, the principle is sometimes known as Leibniz’s law.
Rules essences understood as complete individual notions

Question 19

What does Nietzsche mean by being a master?

Answer 19

Powerful people but not people of power. Because power is contingent on it as a values of the day.
A slave who takes power does not cease to be a slave.

Question 20

Who does Plato contrast the Statesman against?

Answer 20

He is defined as the one who knows “the pastoral care of men.” While there are those who cry “I am the true Shepard of men.”h
This problem is recurring throughout Platos Philosophy. This measuring of rivals and their claimants, (things and their Simulacra.

Question 21

What does Heideggers negative in being refer?

Answer 21

Not to non being but in being in Difference

Question 22

When, according to Marx, is Repetition comic?

Answer 22

When instead of leading to metamorphosis and production of something new it forms a kind of involution the opposite of authentic creation.

Question 23

Why did Pierre Klossowski say faith is not a doctrine, but the Simulacra of every doctrine?

Answer 23

Faith invites us to rediscover God and the self in a common resurrection.
The faithful is like a comedian rediscovering his God in his habit of faith. It is comparable yet again to another eternal return.
One betrothed to the

Question 24

Habitus

Answer 24

Habitus is a system of embodied dispositions, tendencies that organize the ways in which individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. These dispositions are usually shared by people with similar background[1] (in terms of social class, religion, nationality, ethnicity, education, profession etc.), as the habitus is acquired through mimesis[2] and reflects the lived reality to which individuals are socialized, their individual experience and objective opportunities

Question 25

Why is the eternal return not a faith but the truth of faith?

Answer 25

It has isolated the double or the simulacrum, it has liberated the comic in order to make this an element of the superhuman.

Question 26

What point of pleasure does Deleuze draw on Freuds work “beyond the pleasure principle?”

Answer 26

That pleasure is only the satiation or (release) of a series of excitations (in the Id) and that they are Random and unordered and that is what gives way to the difference in a person. Their personal desires and it is only through the investment we tie up in its resolution of these desires and the value we place on that which is the beginning of the organizations of these drives.

Question 27

Why does habit underlying the organization of the Id?

Answer 27

The countercathexis which is the binding of these excitations to something outside (the thing which can fulfill) is the basis for which generates drive. It is therefore that within each drive a separate ego is generated. A narcissistic element since narcissism is not contemplation of oneself but fulfillment of self image in contemplation of something else. (Refer to Lacanian ego). The pleasure derived from the hallucinations of the ego in no way constitute something which effects the binding but represents a passive synthesis (value of being)-Habitus.

Question 28

Kinds of partial objects

Answer 28

“Melanie Klein”
Good and bad
Transitional

“Lacan”
Object a

Question 29

What example is used to describe a passive Synthesis between virtual and real?

Answer 29

A child thumb sucking

The thumb is the virtual object by which the child contemplates mothers breast

Question 30

Why do partial objects exist only as being recovered as lacking?

Answer 30

The past virtual object is never recovered in relation to this new present (partial object)
what is experienced is not hidden but missing. Like a book in a library not in its place but in the adjacent slot, like something you’ve been looking for stuck to the bottom of your shoe.
Like sunglasses you’ve been looking for that are sitting on top of your head.

Question 31

How do Eros and Mnemosyne link between virtual objects?

Answer 31

Eros- tears virtual objects from pure paar and gives them into the order by which they may be lived. (Phallus as a symbolic organ behind these myriad of objects)

Question 32

How does Hypernesia relate to Eros’ affect on virtual objects onto fragments of a past?

Answer 32

That which we do not see is disguised or replaced by a virtual relation as being “already seen.”
A difference where we extract the tea from the virtual.