On Dec 13, 2008, at 11:59 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Of course intuitions, beliefs and values are social products of
> various modes of production. Your point is?
That they cannot legitimately be used to make any judgments transcending the peculiar epoch of historical development in which they flourish, such as "slavery is wicked, period." What does transcend peculiar epochs of historical development are the rational structures of the sciences, including philosophy, because they sum up the development of objective human reason from its inception through whatever time happens to be the "present."
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos