Ethical foundations of the left

Kenneth MacKendrick kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Fri Jul 27 14:11:45 PDT 2001


At 12:40 PM 7/27/01 -0500, you wrote:


>If an internal state of affairs does not exist independently of social
>relations, why is it even useful as an analytic abstraction?

ah, this clears it up. Sorry. It does NOT exist independently of social relations. It is a sphere to which we can take up a particular claim to validity - which are entwined but can be thematically decentered.

I feel this way. We feel this way. It is this way.

I never claimed that there three spheres were independent, I used the term differentiated. My apologies for not seeing the problem earlier.

ken



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