> --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>> The ball is round. No, it's orange. No, its rubber.
>> No it's scorched.
>> No, it's 3 inches in diameter. No, it's lying on the
>> table. What an
>> absurd view of Marx, Freud, Sartre. I don't know
>> about the structuralists.
>
> You seem to be describing the structuralist here.
> What Murdoch says about Marx, Freud and Sartre, and
> structuralism, is that they treat the realm of
> personal opinion, value, moral decision, as a realm of
> illusion (false consciousness, ideology, superego,
> inauthenticity, etc), inferior to abstract
> determinants like class, the unconscious, "authentic
> freedom" and language.
>
> I dont think she's denying the insight of any of the
> writers mentioned, but stating that none of them does
> away with, or relieves us from, the murky realm of
> private moral struggle she believes (as a novelist
> perhaps) we all live in.
>
> BobW
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There is no twelve step program for Carrol's determinism and epiphenomenalism, wrapped as it is in a priorism....
Ian