This is a different subject, but it should be
clear that it applies to the future of work.
I once read [ref. lost, alas] someone explain
that "materialism" -- esp. Marxist materialism,
does not mean that everything is material
("Alle ist Stoff" -- is that the right German?).
True materialism, dialectical materialism --
is the doctrine that everything is the product of human labor:
that the "material" world consists only privatively of
atoms, but primarily it consists of human labor
which has em-bodi-ed itself in things -- things which,
of course, react back on the persons who made them
or who are just "around".
Of course it's also fine to refer to
all sorts of "stuff" as "materialism" -- but
we should not let a noble word be
debased by a base use.
I will repeat that there is a fine book on this
subject: "The Function of the Sciences and the Meaning of
Man, by Enzo Paci (Northwestern Univ. Press).
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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