Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> N's argument that the
> self is a useful fiction--or even better, that truth is
>
> a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms--in
> short, a sum of human relations, [sic] which have been enhanced,
> transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which
> after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people:
> truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what
> they are.
>
> I:'ll say this was a metaphorical 2 x 4 upside my head the first time I
> read it; I guess we get shaken up by different philosophical challenges!
The direction of this is pretty much the same as that of Marx's sixth thesis on Feuerbach, human essence as "the ensemble of the social relations." Those words have informed my thought for nearly 40 years.
Carrol