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Relational Ontology by Christos Yannaras
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“In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.”
― Christos Yannaras, Relational Ontology

tags: being-human, desire, existence, existential, human, human-love, humanity, life-as-relation, ontology, relational-ontology, relationship, sex, yannaras

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“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.”
― Christos Yannaras, Relational Ontology

tags: being, being-in-relation, difference, existence, humanity, love, relatedness, relationships, sexual-difference, yannaras

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