Strange Behavior?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Feb 11 12:23:09 PST 2000


Doug Henwood wrote:


> Of course not. Humans always behave in the most rational,
> self-interested, and nondestructive fashion.

Like Plato you *know* what self-interest is, absolutely, outside of history. You also, like Plato, *know* what "The Rational" is. I don't, except as they are provisionally worked out in social practice. You also know, before you move a finger, *all* the infinite results which will flow from that act, and therefore if you are rational and non-selfdestructive you will move the finger if and only if it conforms to those universal standards (known only to you) of The Rational and The Nonselfdestructive.

Carrol



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