john courtneidge wrote:
[snip]
> BTW can any recall who was it who marvelled at:
>
> "The starry heavens above and the moral order within."
Immanuel Kant. A harder question: exactly *where* did
he write it?
>
> [ And, perhaps we might add:
>
> "and the inclusive society around." ? ]
My psychoanalytic and anthropological backgrounds
would prefer to word this as:
and the usually ex-clusive society
in-trojected/in-culcated by childrearing
Kant's two majesties are both constructs of
reason which can give an accounting for itself.
Childrearing is, to borrow a phrase from William S. Burrows:
a virus from outer space, which, since usually all
are infected similarly, seldom do any find anything
remarkable about it (In the land of the blind, a
one-eyed man is adjudged insane).
"Common sense" can mean at least two very different
things: (1) "the obvious" -- i.e., the unwitting
illusions of a whole social group, or (2) that
"sense" which wittingly endeavors to harmonize
the reports of all the individual perceptual
pathways.
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+\brad mccormick
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