--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
"There is nothing "personal" about these private moral struggles we have; they are social products
through and through."
Does that tell you how to help an alcoholic friend, or what you should do about a child who's acting out?
BobW
> Robert Wrubel wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> "The murky realm of private moral struggle" is a
> product of a capitalist
> society that glorifies individual choice and the
> reduction of social
> problems to personal deficiencies. There is nothing
> "personal" about
> these private moral struggles we have; they are
> social products through
> and through.
>
> Miles
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