Alexander Nekvasil wrote:
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> Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> writes:
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> ...
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> > I don't quite get this: we recognize and enact our connection with
> > all humankind by actually interacting with people, not by solitary
> > reflection. [clip]
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> Most of the time, when interacting, we act out.
1) What does this mean?
2) What are your grounds for the claim?
3) What's wrong with "acting out," whatever that means.
4) Are you implying that we are only our "real self" (whatever that might mean) when we are alone? The Greeks did have a nice word for "private person": _idiotes_.
Carrol