On Feb 14, 2010, at 3:17 PM, SA wrote:
> ....a stubborn fact: that history is entirely mediated through
> people's subjective states of mind: Things happen. Then people react
> *subjectively*. Then people react in action (on the basis of those
> subjective mental processes.) Repeat. There is no other form of
> history...
This is to assert that neither the planet, nor the biosphere, nor the human race itself (prior to the emergence of whatever is meant by "subjective states of mind" leading "people [to] react in action") had any history. So close down the Museums of Natural History!
The philosophical essence of Hegel and Marx is not "the self- deification of mankind" (whatever that can mean) but the view of human history as not only an organic stage in natural history but as a crux in that history, a "prehistory," opening the possibility (but far, far, from the certainty) of a new, higher, stage in the development of planetary consciousness (called "communism" [Marx] or "objective spirit" [Hegel]).
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."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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