--- Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is interesting. What would be the source of
> arete in this hypothetical society? Do you mean
> some people would still be not entirely with the
> program, feeling slighted, wanting to challenge the
> group, not content with just being happy and
> productive? Iago and Othello move us because we all
> have a little of envy and jealousy in us, but in
> this hypothetical classless society presumably
> there'd be much less of those emotions, and a drama
> involving them would be incomprehensible or
> unmoving. Like the story of Abraham and Isaac is to
> me.
There's always going to be the guy in the commune who is better at things, better looking, more charismatic, gets all the wimmin, and so forth. And then there will be the people who aren't. There will always be a David Watts. ;(
>
> BobW
>
> --- Robert Wrubel wrote:
> >
> > There couldnt be tragedy in Aristotle's sense,
> > which requires someone of elevated stature, but
> more
> > than that, someone whose fall questions the
> > established order.
> >
>
> Aristotle is talking in terms of arete, personal
> excellence, not social class, right? I imagine that
> in
> a hypothetical classless society there would still
> be
> differences in social status based on achievement,
> personal likeability and so forth.
>
>
>
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