From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 31 2002 - 09:07:53 GMT
Hi Wim, all (especially Marco),
It's both humbling and exciting to fully realise that my 'campaign' is not
particularly original. True it was pointed out that the thought had been
round the block before, and I still think it was worth pushing the boat out
again, but I was struck by this passage from Marco, Jul25 2001 (just after I
joined).
"I think that the idea of the self (the very first intellectual pattern,
parent of all the S/O thinking, and parent of the Socrates' "Gnothi Se
Auton" and of the Descartes "Cogito" and of the Bill of Human Rights.... )
came out not from language, but in those societies where the division of
labor has determined that it was "good" for someone to be isolated for some
times in order to perform some social duty."
I largely agree with this (I don't agree that it is the Cogito). What I was
originally arguing about as the 'individual' is I think what Marco is here
referring to as the self, and it is dependent on a particular social
structure to develop.
Lots of things to muse on!
Sam
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