Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Thu Dec 7 11:39:26 PST 2000


Wojtek:


> >More often than not, people (including many Marxists) see contingency
>>where they should see necessity and see necessity where they should
> >see contingency. Ideological inversion redux.
>
>Necessity is but a product of human mind, the realm of logic not the world.
>More precise, it is the product of the limitation of the human mind to
>experience or grasp the counterfactual. The world is but a contingency,
>devoid of any reason, logic, necessity, order, divinity and kindred
>metaphysical abstractions.

You are far more post-modern (or nominalist) than I am.

Yoshie



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