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No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - João Lourenço Borges Neto - 2017.pdf: 1209614 bytes, checksum: 050ca1a30d51754d18db382badb8fda8 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / At the end of the year 2013, in Athens, Giorgio Agamben presented an important reflection on the fate of European democracy. According the philosopher, we no longer live under the aegis of democracy and the governmental paradigm of our time could not even be called political. The concept that replaced any political notions was that of security, and the slogan "for security reasons" has taken on a worldwide scale the new parameter of government of the contemporary political order. In order to understand this diagnosis, Giorgio Agamben proposed, on that occasion, the invitation to carry out a genealogy of the concept of security from an acute research on its origin and history in the paradigm of state of exception. This dissertation aims, together with Agamben, to untangle the concept of a state of exception, too demonstrating its implication and relation with human life. The concept of exception state developed by Agamben during the Homo Sacer project resumes the debate about the law between Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin in the 1920s. We reconstitute this debate step-by-step to demonstrate how essential it was for Agamben to contact the works of the German jurist for the development of the theme of exception. It was, however, taking on Benjamin's side in that discussion that the Italian philosopher was instigated to direct his fiercest criticisms of the democratic state of law. It follows from this takeover of the diagnoses of being the state of exception the governance paradigm of contemporaneity and the sign that the state of exception inscribes sovereignty in a paradox. We also develop Agamben's proposal to point to the confluence between the biopolitical model coined by Foucault, but years before also diagnosed by Hannah Arendt, and the juridical-institutional model. That is, the point where life and right touch the figure of the sovereign and the bare life. What this dissertation also worried to point out from the title was how much the contact with the theoretical contribution of Walter Benjamin was decisive for Agamben in the development of his political concepts composed in the political project Homo Sacer. / No fim do ano de 2013, em Atenas, Giorgio Agamben expôs uma importante reflexão sobre o destino da democracia europeia. Segundo o filósofo, não vivemos mais sob a égide da democracia e o paradigma governamental de nosso tempo sequer poderia ser denominado político. O conceito que substituiu quaisquer noções políticas foi o da segurança e o slogan ―por razões de segurança‖ assumiu, em escala mundial, o novo parâmetro de governo da ordem política contemporânea. Para compreendermos esse diagnóstico, Giorgio Agamben propôs, naquela ocasião, o convite de realizar uma genealogia do conceito de segurança a partir de uma pesquisa aguda sobre a sua origem e história no paradigma de estado de exceção. Esta dissertação tem como finalidade, em conjunto com Agamben, destrinçar o conceito de estado de exceção demonstrando, também, qual seria a sua implicação e relação com a vida humana. O conceito de estado de exceção desenvolvido por Agamben no decorrer do projeto Homo Sacer retoma o debate sobre o direito travado entre Carl Schmitt e Walter Benjamin na década de 20 do século XX. Reconstituímos passo-a-passo esse debate para demonstrar o quanto foi essencial para Agamben o contato com as obras do jurista alemão para o desenvolvimento do tema de exceção. Foi, contudo, tomando para si o lado de Benjamin naquela discussão que o filósofo italiano foi instigado a direcionar suas críticas mais ferozes ao estado democrático de direito. Seguem dessa tomada de partido os diagnósticos de ser o estado de exceção o paradigma de governo da contemporaneidade e a indicação de que o estado de exceção inscreve a soberania em um paradoxo. Desenvolvemos ainda a proposta de Agamben em apontar para o ponto de confluência entre o modelo biopolítico, cunhado por Foucault, mas anos antes também diagnosticado por Hannah Arendt, e o modelo jurídico-institucional. Isto é, o ponto onde vida e direito se tocam na figura do soberano e da vida nua. O que esta dissertação também se preocupou em pontuar, desde o título, foi o quanto o contato com o aporte teórico de Walter Benjamin foi determinante para Agamben no desenvolvimento de seus conceitos políticos compostos no projeto político Homo Sacer.

No / This paper considers the situation of people with dementia who are living in long-term care from two rarely-applied theoretical perspectives. The first, Agamben’s theory of biopolitical life versus bare life, demonstrates that the situation of people with dementia living in care homes or hospitals approximates to that of prisoners, internees and refugees, deprived of full citizenship or biopolitical life. In popular imagery people with dementia are frequently referred to, first in terms of numbers, as a ‘rising tide’, in a way that has historically been used to justify discrimination and social exclusion. In many, care environments it is, moreover, still the case that people with dementia are reduced to a condition of ‘bare life’ only: given little choice, having few rights, lacking freedom of movement, and subjected to almost constant surveillance. In other contexts, such treatment is known to cause or exacerbate many of the problems which – following a biomedical model – are constructed as ‘symptoms of dementia’, such as disorientation in time and space, sleep disturbance, hallucinations and repetitive movement. The second body of theory is Bakhtin’s work on cultural resistance. This demonstrates that many of the so-called ‘challenging behaviours’ manifested by people with dementia, can better be understood as coping, sense-making and self-determining strategies adopted in order to survive within prevailing organisational cultures. Based on a series of studies carried out in intermediate and long-term care since 2009, the paper draws on a range of narrative and film-based examples to demonstrate the ‘courage, humour, fortitude and cunning’ with which, as Walter Benjamin noted, the oppressed have always met the conditions of their oppression. In the process, ‘challenging behaviour’ is given political and ideological meaning, as protest, perpetrated by people who are struggling against extreme odds to be reinstated as full citizens. / Conference website: http://www.aginggraz2017.com/conference-schedule

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T17:27:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Flavia D Urso.pdf: 1616648 bytes, checksum: f578da696de954a5e5e0f53b4ba54798 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-03 / Sovereignty is a concept made shallow as it presents frail theoretical solutions when applied to aspects from reality. The research hereby aims at understanding Giorgio Agamben s diagnosis on sovereignty by going through the core of Carl Schmitt s thinking in his theory of the sovereign power as well as the displacement of such problem in Michel Foucault s writings. Agamben is an intellectual who perused stern philosophical pathways, sovereignty having stood first and foremost for him along the issue of the potentiality of not being. His approach to reality takes place through the motto to prefer not to, from which he glimpses one possibility for putting down one s relationship between wanting and being able to, and between the constituent and constituted powers. And such annihilation is in effect essential for Agamben since his concept of sovereignty takes into consideration a juridical category not only weakened of its representativeness but most of all originating from an unprecedented biopolitical catastrophe. The path chosen by Agamben for such conclusion is one of a paradigmatic ontology, that is, the axes of understanding for the phenomena which ousted political character from juridical ordinances. The paradigms nuda vita (bare life) and the state of exception mainly constitute the structural elements whose function is to ultimately keep the exception-ridden life of the law. The bottleneck established by sovereignty is undone by a new form-of-life, which means the absolute desecration of a life power over which neither sovereignty nor the law can have control over / A soberania é conceito esvaziado porque apresenta frágeis soluções teóricas quando aplicadas aos aspectos da realidade. Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo a compreensão do diagnóstico de Giorgio Agamben a respeito da soberania percorrendo a centralidade da teoria do poder soberano do pensamento de Carl Schmitt e o deslocamento do problema em Michel Foucault. Agamben é um intelectual de árido percurso filosófico e a soberania para ele, antes de tudo, é uma questão da potencialidade de não ser. A sua aproximação da realidade se dá pela fórmula preferiria não, na qual ele vislumbra uma possibilidade de destruição da relação entre querer e poder, entre poder constituinte e poder constituído. E tal destruição, de fato, é essencial para Agamben porque o seu conceito de soberania considera uma categoria jurídica não só esvaziada de representação, mas, sobretudo, originária de uma catástrofe biopolítica sem precedentes. O caminho escolhido por Agamben para essa conclusão é o de uma ontologia paradigmática, ou seja, eixos de entendimento para os fenômenos que destituíram o caráter político do ordenamento jurídico. Os paradigmas da nuda vita e do estado de exceção, principalmente, são elementos estruturais da soberania cuja função é, enfim, o de manter a vida excepcionada do direito. O nó estabelecido pela soberania desata-se por uma nova forma-de-vida, o que significa uma absoluta profanação de uma potência da vida sobre a qual nem a soberania, nem o direito podem ter mais controle

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O romance Ensaio sobre a cegueira, do escritor português José Saramago, publicado em 1995, revela profundas críticas à estrutura da sociedade hodierna, bem como sua política. Em vistas desse fato, a presente dissertação investiga as relações políticas e filosóficas presentes no romance, estabelecendo como arcabouço teórico as pesquisas do filósofi italiano Giorgio Agamben sobre o estado de exceção na série de volumes Homo Sacer, que segue a trilha deixada por Michel Foucault sobre os dispositivos de poder e saber na sociedade contemporânea. A pesquisa ora apresentada revela uma leitura do estado de exceção enquanto uma estrutura de exclusão da vida nuaatravés de uma via biopolítica que encontra no romance do escritor português um intenso questionamento sobre o homem moderno descolado de si mesmo / The presente study of the literary work of José Saramago, a portuguese writer, reveals a profound criticism to the structure of power in modern society, as well as, its politics. The hereby presented reading of the novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira, which was published in 1995, intends to perform an interpretative approach based on the studies of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben Reading of the state of emergency. His work follows the studies of the French philosopher Michel Foucault regarding the power devices used by society to create a specific sort of life which is designed according to political purposes. The main thesis over which the presente work is constructed reveals that the bare life can be excluded when na emergency state is declared, and as a resoult, life can be killed

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / O romance Ensaio sobre a cegueira, do escritor português José Saramago, publicado em 1995, revela profundas críticas à estrutura da sociedade hodierna, bem como sua política. Em vistas desse fato, a presente dissertação investiga as relações políticas e filosóficas presentes no romance, estabelecendo como arcabouço teórico as pesquisas do filósofi italiano Giorgio Agamben sobre o estado de exceção na série de volumes Homo Sacer, que segue a trilha deixada por Michel Foucault sobre os dispositivos de poder e saber na sociedade contemporânea. A pesquisa ora apresentada revela uma leitura do estado de exceção enquanto uma estrutura de exclusão da vida nuaatravés de uma via biopolítica que encontra no romance do escritor português um intenso questionamento sobre o homem moderno descolado de si mesmo / The presente study of the literary work of José Saramago, a portuguese writer, reveals a profound criticism to the structure of power in modern society, as well as, its politics. The hereby presented reading of the novel Ensaio sobre a cegueira, which was published in 1995, intends to perform an interpretative approach based on the studies of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben Reading of the state of emergency. His work follows the studies of the French philosopher Michel Foucault regarding the power devices used by society to create a specific sort of life which is designed according to political purposes. The main thesis over which the presente work is constructed reveals that the bare life can be excluded when na emergency state is declared, and as a resoult, life can be killed

The present research uses the theoretical contribution of the biopolitics of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben and aims to analyze the disputes around the concept of Contemporary Slave Labor (CSL) in Brazil, from the bills in progress in the National Congress that seek to modify the concept, the Ministry of Labor Ordinance nº 1129/2017 and Federal Supreme Court's judgments on the subject. The biopolitical regime in the contemporary Democratic State of Law is examined based on the conceptual discussions brought by Agamben in the Homo Sacer Project, also as the debate on the ambivalent role of human rights and the ambiguous character of their discourses, especially in view of their weakness of protection in the limit situations. The condition of CSL is reflected as a bare life produced by the rule of law, which shows the paradox of sovereignty and bare life in which the homo sacer and the umbilical relation between state of exception and the rule of law. It is also analyzed the historicallegal development of international and national documents in an attempt to unveil the strategies of the biopolitical exercise of control of the individual’s life. In this sense, the study has as hypothesis that the examination of the disputes around the concept of CSL, from the study of the aforementioned corpus, shows that the state action, instead of contributing to the eradication of the CSL, constitutes a biopolitical formula of control and maintenance of the phenomenon. Therefore, the preservation of the structure of brazilian society would be based on a biopolitical control of exclusion-inclusion of the living subject, in this case contemporary slave labor, which would consolidate bare life in contemporary society. As for the methodology, the postulates of the interpretative and qualitative paradigm in scientific research (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2006), allied to bibliographic procedure, according to a documental research modality (REGINATO, 2017), theory of the acts of speech of Austin (1990 [1962]). Once the theoreticalmethodological path described above has been undertaken, it was found that the biopolitical regime of the CSL, initially constructed as a discursive strategy that creates subjects in a situation of vulnerability is carried out under contexts of: a) restriction of the victim's freedom; b) reiteration of sctructural inequality and c) hierarchy of human life. / A presente pesquisa, utilizando-se do aporte teórico da biopolítica do filósofo Giorgio Agamben, tem por objetivo analisar as disputas em torno do conceito de Trabalho Escravo Contemporâneo (TEC) no Brasil, a partir dos projetos de lei em trâmite no Congresso Nacional que buscam modificar o conceito, da Portaria do Ministério do Trabalho nº 1129/2017 e de julgados do Supremo Tribunal Federal sobre o tema. Examina-se o regime biopolítico no Estado Democrático de Direito contemporâneo fundamentado nas discussões conceituais agambenianas expostas no Projeto Homo Sacer e a discussão sobre o papel ambivalente dos direitos humanos e o caráter ambíguo dos seus discursos, especialmente diante da sua debilidade de proteção nas situações-limite. Reflete-se sobre a condição de TEC enquanto vida nua produzida pelo Estado de Direito, que mostra o paradoxo da soberania e da vida nua no qual está explicitado o homo sacer e a umbilical relação entre estado de exceção e estado de direito. Analisa-se o desenvolvimento histórico-jurídico dos documentos internacionais e nacionais na tentativa de desvelar as estratégias do exercício biopolítico de controle da vida do indivíduo. Neste sentido, o estudo tem como hipótese que o exame das disputas em torno do conceito de TEC, a partir do estudo do corpus acima referido, evidencia que a atuação estatal, em vez de contribuir para a erradicação do TEC, se constitui em fórmula biopolítica de controle e manutenção do fenômeno. Portanto, a conservação da estrutura da sociedade brasileira seria baseada em um controle biopolítico de exclusão-inclusão do sujeito vivente, no caso o trabalhador escravo contemporâneo, o que consolidaria a vida nua na sociedade contemporânea. Quanto à metodologia, assumiu-se os postulados dos paradigmas interpretativista e qualitativo em pesquisa científica (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2006), aliado a procedimento de caráter bibliográfico, segundo uma modalidade de pesquisa documental (REGINATO, 2017), e da teoria dos atos de fala de Austin (1990 [1962]). Uma vez tendo sido empreendido o percurso teórico-metodológico acima descrito, constatou-se que o regime biopolítico do TEC, construído inicialmente enquanto estratégia discursiva que cria sujeitos mantidos em situação de vulnerabilidade, se realiza sob contextos de: a) cerceamento de liberdade da vítima; b) reiteração da desigualdade estrutural e c) hierarquização da vida humana. / São Cristóvão, SE

This study aims to identify potential ways in which the African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa (Kampala Convention) improves the quality of life for IDPs. Relying on the concept of bare life, it answers if and how the convention prevents bare life. Drawing on theory and previous research on bare life in relation to IDPs, the analytical framework forms four theoretical dimensions to which the Kampala Convention, Translating The Kampala Convention Into Practice: A Stocktaking Exercise (ICRC, 2017) and The Kampala Convention: Key Recommendations Ten Years On (ICRC, 2019) are applied. Based on a grading, the results tell of the convention’s effects. The IDPs’ rights and political agency are adequately respected; quotidian culture and prevention of exclusionary practices are promoted yet insufficiently. Adding humanitarianism, biopolitics and host communities as additional findings, there are areas that should be carefully respected, but bare life is mostly prevented. Hopefully, this study can add knowledge to the progress of the Kampala Convention and provide a framework for similar analyses of policy and practice on aiding people in distress.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alex Pereira Leuterio.pdf: 838505 bytes, checksum: a7414fa464ac399804446b7e123f8acc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-10 / This research objectives at the investigation of the state of emergency in the light of the work of Giorgio Agamben, in the sense of an instrument capable of, by law, stop the life and rights inherent to it by its own suspension in empty space of law, a zone of anomie. Thus, Agamben historically reports the zone of indifference from institutes of Roman law that produced the stoppage of the law and therefore a legal loophole. Given this finding, Agamben correlates such institutes to the state of contemporary Exception, which is, in fact, permanent, put that in this vacuum, standard and life are connected by force-in-law, which applies, diapplying. Will point out that Agamben begins his argument by examining the political power and its relation to biological life (zoé), analysis of biopower and the movement of inclusive exclusion of biological life in the field of politics and law. Then, we stress that the political work of Giorgio Agamben records the infamous debate between Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin, about the sovereign power, from which it extracts the state of permanent exception and the field are paradigms of contemporary politics - like Auschwitz , "homo sacer" and "Muselmann - legitimized by the founding violence of law, the considerations discussed here is done on biopolitics, bare life, the state of exception and force of law, whose solution, for Agamben, is a new form of life, achieved by the desecration, which reflects a community coming, endowed with the ability to disable biopower mentioned, creator of a-bando-ned, and not necessarily linked to the law. In conclusion, upon the concepts and profanation inoperosidade the proposed Agamben turns out something totally new, since this community requires that comes a new ethos, a new use, a shutdown of the old use, rendering them inoperable, since being any will be neither a people united by their similarities (aryans, africans, indians) or divided groups or subgroups, shredded by differences singularity without identity, common and absolutely exposed, the actual path of contemplation of the evangelicmessage of zoé aiónios, of eternal life / Este trabalho tem por objetivo a investigação acerca do Estado de Exceção à luz das obras de Giorgio Agamben, no sentido de um instrumento capaz de, pelo direito, deter a vida e os direitos a ela inerentes pela sua própria suspensão, em espaço vazio de direito, uma zona de anomia. Assim, Agamben reporta historicamente a referida zona de indiferença a institutos de direito romano que produziam a paralisação da lei e, consequentemente, uma lacuna jurídica. Diante desta constatação, Agamben correlaciona tais institutos ao Estado de Exceção contemporâneo, o qual é, em verdade, permanente, posto que, neste vácuo, norma e a vida estão ligadas pela força-de-lei, que se aplica se desaplicando. Apontaremos que Agamben inicia seu raciocínio pelo exame do poder político e sua relação com vida biológica (zoé), pela análise de biopoder e pelo movimento de exclusão inclusiva de vida biológica no campo de vida política e direito. Em seguida, ressaltase que a obra política de Giorgio Agamben registra o famigerado debate entre Carl Schmitt e Walter Benjamin, acerca do poder soberano, donde se extrairá que o Estado de Exceção permanente e o campo são paradigmas da política contemporânea - assim como Auschwitz, homo sacer e Muselmann -, legitimados pela violência fundadora do direito, aqui discutidos nas considerações que se faz sobre biopolítica, vida nua, estado de exceção e força de lei, cuja solução, para Agamben, está em uma nova forma de vida, alcançada pela profanação, que espelha uma comunidade que vem, dotada da capacidade de desativar o mencionado biopoder, criador de a-bando-nados, e não vinculada necessariamente ao direito. Em conclusão, mediante os conceitos de profanação e inoperosidade, a proposta de Agamben revela-se algo totalmente novo, posto que essa comunidade que vem exige um novo ethos, um novo uso, uma desativação do velho uso, tornando-os inoperantes, porquanto o ser qualquer não vai ser nem um povo unido pelas suas semelhanças (os arianos, os negros, os índios) nem grupos ou subgrupos divididos, retalhados pelas diferenças, singularidade sem identidade, comum e absolutamente exposta, a caminho da contemplação efetiva da mensagem evangélica da zoé aiónios, da vida eterna

本論文的研究主題是探討當代義大利哲學家阿岡本（Giorgio Agamben）關於法律與生命之關係的思想，而其中的關鍵概念則為「例外狀態」（state of exception）。延續著由傅柯（Michel Foucault）所鋪展的生命政治（biopolitics）分析，當代政治確實面對著如下困徑（aporia）：其所欲展演人類幸福與自由之處─神聖的生命本身─同時正是政治權力所試圖全面掌控的對象。政治如此，作為其運作綱要的法律亦然。這可由大法官釋字603號關於換身份證需按指紋的爭議透露出來：為了保障「身家性命」的基本人權，國家要求介入該權利的核心領域，將每個人的生物性特徵─指紋─強制建檔以進行更全面的人口治理。 這個法與生命的弔詭關係，在阿岡本的思想中，乃是透過一個特殊的法權裝置─例外狀態─而產生。相對於一般所認為的，法與生命的關係在於以法律規範生命，或由生命創造法律，阿岡本認為法與生命的關係首先在於法與生命的區分（distinction）本身，而例外狀態便是建立這個區分的裝置。所謂的例外狀態，就是透過懸置法律（憲法），用不受法律限制的措施進行治理的狀態。例外狀態彷彿是一個無法狀態（anomie），而生命彷彿被棄置於法律之外成為赤裸的生命（bare life）。然而，根據史密特（Carl Schmitt）的名言：「主權者就是決斷例外狀態之人」，例外狀態並非與法律無關，相反地，其作用在於創造或回復一個讓法律能夠適用於生命的正常情境。因此，正是透過將生命排除於法律之外，例外狀態試圖建構一個能將生命包含進來的法秩序。這個透過排除而包含的關係，就是阿岡本所定義的例外關係，也就是法律與生命的根本關係。而阿岡本認為現代生命政治的特性，便在於例外狀態已非例外，而逐漸成為常態，也因此法與生命的關係本身也日益成為對抗爭議的焦點所在。 因此，本文的工作便在於探討阿岡本的思想中，法與生命間如何透過例外狀態而建立關係，其形式、力道、所構作之生命形象與可能的出路。本文的作法主要在於理論的耙梳與思辨；然而，例外狀態並非僅是一個抽象概念。放在台灣的歷史脈絡中，伴隨著現代化的殖民統治、戒嚴統治，甚至直到今天的「事實上國家」，無一不是例外狀態的常態體現。911之後由美國所主導的全球化反恐活動亦是此結構的更新部署。甚而，在日常實踐上，例外的潛在揭示著每一個「依法行政」、「依法裁判」背後所無可避免的決斷，以及賦予此決斷以法的效力（force of law）的國家暴力。阿岡本《例外狀態》一書的第一句話因此問道：「你們法律人為何對那與你切身相關之事保持沈默？」

This essay provides an attempt to reflect the notions of violence, right or law and fate in Benjamin’s Zur Kritik der Gewalt, in order to clarify his very dense historical-philosophical reflection on the constitutive relation between violence and law. In contrast to what is most often the case, this essay will not address the notion of divine violence in a direct sense, but mainly focus on Benjamin’s discussion on right and law. The complex of his historical reflection, his attempt to articulate what he calls the “historical function” not only of violence, but also of law, is crucially related to the notion of fate. First and foremost fate is what turns the suspicion of the perniciousness of this historical function into a certainty, actualizing its destruction as something obligatory in terms of divine violence, by deepening the analysis and revealing the fundamental relation between law and violence. By pointing out the function of violence within the sphere of law, Benjamin not only states that violence cannot be thought otherwise than in relation to this sphere, but also that the relation between law and violence has to be thought in terms of the “uncertainty of the legal threat”. The deepest meaning of both the “uncertainty” and “the legal threat” emerges from the “sphere of fate”, and by reflecting this notion this essay will try to outline the legal complex and the meaning of fate in terms of guilt, misfortune and judgement, and how it is constituted with reference to the notion of “bare life” – that is, the marked bearer of guilt. The complexity of the relation between violence and law shows itself in the circumstance that this “bearer” in terms of guilt also becomes the bearer of the relation itself, bearing the validity of law, or more precise, the being in force of law. This also conceptualizes law as a phenomenon of frontiers, in a double sense that will explain the meaning of guilt and fate in terms of infringement, but also the legal relation to violence understood as a line constituting an inside and an outside within the sphere of law itself. And this will also explain why the meaning of justification of violence – significantly related to fate and the phenomenon of this line – never can be understood ethically.