> Durkheim argues that categories
> through which people perceive and understand reality is shaped by
> their social relations, which in my opinion is among the most
> important ideas in the entire history of philosophy. In that sense,
> ideas exist independently of individual consciousness - they are are
> usually given as far as individual consciousness is concerned. In
> other words, they are intersubjective rather than subjective.
What are the implications of this for these ideas?
Ted