On Sep 6, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> My objection is your and Joanna's implicit assumption (which I don't
>> think you hold -- but your words surely carry it) that your judgments
>> are valid from some perspective "outside" human perception and
>> judgment
>> -- that there is/would be something beautiful about the B-Minor or
>> the
>> arc of a dolphin even if humans did not exist. Both of you
>> anthropomorphize the Cosmos itself.
>
> There's a whole tradition in thought, a tradition to which Marx
> belongs, that makes this assumption.
"You call it rain but the human name doesn't mean shit to a tree."
- Jefferson Airplane