The substance of the self (was Outlawing Fascistic Racist Speech)

Martin Schiller mart555 at t-three.com
Sat Mar 25 18:01:25 PST 2000


kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca said on 3/25/00 4:58 PM


>I disagree that human beings are all basically the same. In a completely
>abstract way, this is true - but we don't share meaning of what being human
>means. For instance, the "reality" of a Buddhist monk is quite different
>from
>that of an evangelical or a dialectical materialist.

Isn't the difference between reactions to the _same reality_ what distinguish individuals and groups? And humans are reactionary like less selfconscious life forms. Hungry -> eat {vegan/flesh/human]? Perhaps that's a basic similarity.

Martin



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