[lbo-talk] Heidegger and uneasy questions

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 9 16:47:30 PDT 2008


At 04:32 PM 7/9/2008, Carrol Cox wrote:


>To speak of society as based on "some rational system" is of course a
>vulgar idealism, a matter of taking the metaphor of a social contract
>too seriously and fantasizing a bunch of utter strangers coming together
>out of nowhere to sit down around a table and begin excogitating a
>contract by means of which they can form a society where none existed
>before. Why in the world would someone devote a lifetime to
>demonstrating the falsity of that.

You're always saying that all kinds of atrocities have been and continue to be committed in the name of the constitution. Isn't that taking a social contract too seriously? So what's the problem with demonstrating the falsity of that?



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