[lbo-talk] Caroline Fourest: In Praise of Consent

[c b]

On 5/27/2011 11:13 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> c b wrote:
>>
>> CB: In fact, that in humans which "simply exists" is their biological
>> or natural selves. Biological sexual intercourse and conception
>> precede existence. Then the resultant new born babies are completely
>> natural beings.
>
> This is wrong through and through. The womb is an environment, and
> what happens in this environment shapes the development of the embryo
> and fetus. Newborns are far from "completely natural"; they are a
> product of the complex interaction of the intrauterine environment and
> genetics.
>
> Miles

^^^^^
CB: U'll give 'birth" to a new phenomenon: Naturo-phobia. It's
neo-theology and, of course, an idealism. Nothing is free of human
imprint.    The Hegelian "Idea" is absolute, or whatever.  Nature is
the Idea alienating from itself.

Hey, why designate "genetics" as natural.  Nature doesn't exist
outside of the Mind of God.  Everything is the "Idea", the Absolute
Idea, God.