If generative anthropology is indeed a better way to think about the human , then it should be able to shed light on contemporary moral controversies on issues such as homosexuality , assisted suicide , or genetic engineering . This does not mean that GA should come down on one side or another of these debates, but that it should clarify the positions of both sides, revealing them to be anthropological hypotheses rather than conflicting affirmations of moral absolutes . Abortion is the most politically potent of these controversies because it has the greatest anthropological significance.
Men can only relate to others externally, as beings physically separated from oneself.
Womanhood may be defined as the capacity for another kind of relation with another, one that we may call internal otherness . The pregnant woman has within her body a potential human being. We may call it the internal other because it has a human identity different from that of the mother. According to the originary hypothesis , the birth of human language took place in order to defer mimetic conflict among external others . I have assumed the participants in the originary scene of language to be men because it is male externality that tends to mimetic rivalry and violence, not the peaceful relation of internal otherness.