From: Chris Vlaar (C.C.Vlaar@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 24 2004 - 18:55:34 BST
Hi Sam,
just a short remark here: human beings are NOT a source of ideas, how
could they be, that is a contradiction, because ideas do not belong to
individuals, what does individuality mean, it means ' inseperable',
are we inseperable? Are we closed subjects hovering above mechanics?
Or are we but ' hollow barrels where history flows through?' The
latter I reckon. How could we be <individuals> if Descartes was not
right after all, and do we not all agree on that Descartes was
actually wrong. We all are being narcoted on a large scale believing
that we are individuals, that we have a free will, that people are
born equal. If an individual is the source of an idea, then we would
be the father of language, the handyman that uses language as his
instrument as Wittgenstein and others proclaim, but we are not. What
is the hitsory of the word idea, what did Plato mean by his 'ideas' -
belonging to an individual? No way! It is a way of 'seeing' - as what
the things appear to us, not, to me.
Language HAS us, ideas HAVE us, we do not have ideas, we do not even
THINK, the language thinks THROUGH us. Ideas are public. What was lost
in 9/11: probably nothing, maybe the illusion of invincibility.
regards Chris
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