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ethics

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is a creative activity in which one shapes one's self.

for Foucault ethics is a creative activity in which one shapes one's self,

is a problem of power, never a problem of duty' (deleuze, 1978: 9), it is about that which we are capable of doing, not what we ought to do. In this sense power and ethics are inextricably intertwined.

For Spinoza 'ethics is a problem of power, never a problem of duty' (Deleuze, 1978: 9), it is about that which we are capable of doing, not what we ought to do. In this sense power and ethics are inextricably intertwined. This connection sees ethics as being about 'becoming-active, in parallel, of mind adn body' (Massumi, 2002: 32).

is a pure science, having as its subject-matter relations of ideas, and omitting all question of the realization of these ideas in the concrete matter of fact of moral experience.

For Locke ethics is a pure science, having as its subject-matter relations of ideas, and omitting all question of the realisation of these ideas in the concrete matter of fact of moral experience.

is a question of whether or not one has acted in conformity with one's desire.

For Lacan, ethics is a question of whether or not one has acted in conformity with one's desire (314),

is a set of practices that concern the kind of relation that one has to oneself. The essential condition for its practice is freedom, the ability to choose one action and not another.

Ethics concerns the kind of relation one has to oneself. The essential condition for the practice of ethics is freedom, the ability to choose one action, not another. Foucault makes a distinction between moral codes (which are simply collections of rules and precepts) and ethics. He suggests there are four aspects to how the individual constitutes him/herself as the moral subject of his or her own actions. The first aspect relates to the part of the individual which acts as the focus of moral conduct. The second aspect concerns what makes an individual recognize their moral obligations. The third aspect relates to the means by which individuals transform and work on themselves. The fourth aspect concerns what sort of person an individual might want to be. (net) Care of the self. . . .

is about fidelity to this tension, to have the courage to face up to this split of which there can be no relief.

For i ek, ethics is about fidelity to this tension, to have the courage to face up to this split of which there can be no relief.

is about the good life. One cannot riddle one's way into it, and if the term 'ethics' conjures a hectoring moralism, a focus on misdeeds, a list of italicized demerits, then something has indeed been lost.

One cannot riddle one's way to the good life, and if the term 'ethics' conjures a hectoring moralism, a focus on misdeeds, a list of italicized demerits, then something has indeed been lost. (apiaha 'ethics' 198)

is, together with morality, one an aspect of a two-sided phenomena. Ethics may change while moral codes remain constant (or vice-versa).

Thus for Foucault, ethics and morality are two aspects of one phenomenon, in which ethics may change while moral codes remain constant (and, in principle, vice-versa), so that it makes no sense, as it does in Zigon's terms, to regard ethics and morality as distinct states, or to ask, is this morality now in an ethical moment or not'

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