[lbo-talk] hetersex instinct

wrobert at uci.edu wrobert at uci.edu
Thu Jun 12 14:09:01 PDT 2008


No, you're right. I don't think that there are human instincts in that sense. robert wood


> Maybe I'm being a pedant, but the knee thing is a
> reflex, not an instinct, unless I am misremembering
> the exact meaning of the words. Instincts are things
> like beavers building dams or birds flying south --
> complicated behavior.
>
> --- wrobert at uci.edu wrote:
>
>> Human beings obviously have instincts. You hit the
>> right part of the
>> knee, the leg goes up. However, there are a few
>> steps missing from the
>> argument if we want to argue for what you are
>> arguing for. What I would
>> not accept is that there are instincts that somehow
>> structurally determine
>> human existence. (ie when you try to make this a
>> socially meaningful
>> claim, it loses validity very quickly.) As a last
>> note, there are a lot of
>> things that we do 'instinctively' and are part of
>> our 'second nature' that
>> could be classified as ideology (within Althusser's
>> use of the word)
>> robert wood
>>
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> Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes,
> mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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