Transcript Duncan, Taine - East

A Love That Challenges
Taine Duncan
University of Central Arkansas
For Philosophy of Sex and Love
PHIL 3343
Summer Infusing Institute 2013
Existing Materials
Kelly Oliver and bell hooks on Love as
an ethical mode for subjectivity beyond
domination
Love is a critical challenge for selfexamination and engagement with
Others
From Kelly Oliver’s Witnessing
(2001)
“The loving eye is a critical eye in that it
demands to see what cannot be seen; it
vigilantly looks for signs of the invisible
process that gives rise to vision, reflection,
and recognition. The loving eye is a critical
eye in that it insists on going beyond
recognition toward otherness. The loving eye
is a critical eye in the sense that it is
necessary, crucial for establishing and
nourishing relationships across difference”
(219).
Kinds of Challenging
Relationships
Significant Others
Parents and Children
Teachers and Students
Devotees and the Divine
Teachers, Students, and the
Divine
Buddhist understandings of master/disciple
and the intention of Buddhist study and
practice.
“The traditional approach to dissolving
troubling karma and realizing a liberating
redirection of the dynamics of
interdependence is through the integrated
cultivation of wisdom, attentive mastery, and
moral clarity” (Hershock, 681).
Ikkyu Sojun and Kelly Oliver
“you can’t be anyone
but you
therefore you are that
Other one you love”
(29).
Ikkyu Sojun, trans. by
Stephen Berg in
Crow with No Mouth: Ikkyu
Fifteenth Century Zen
Master (2000).
 “In this case, I fall in love with
love, with the precarious
process of subjectivity that
connects the tissues of my
sensations, affects, thoughts,
and words--the tissues of my
being--to the tissues of others.
To love is to bear witness to the
process of witnessing that gives
us the power to be, togther. And
being together is the chaotic
adventure of subjectivity”
(Oliver, 224).
Future Research
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Zhang Xiaogang, A Big Family, 1995
Oil on canvas, 179 x 229 cm
 “Ten days as abbot and
my mind is reeling,
beneath my feet a ‘red
thread’ stretching out
interminably. If you
come looking for me
another day, try a fish
shop, tavern, or
brothel.”-- Ikkyu Sojun