Would a beautiful painting be considered a 'new idea"? How about a beautiful
rendition of some kind of music or a poem or a beautifully cleaned home or how
about a new recipe for bread? What about the development of a person who is
able to radiate a kind of energy that brings out the best in people around
her/him
Are the energies that go into these kinds of products (?) to be considered
work?
I refer people once again to the Boston Globe article about the women
economists who are trying to redefine the very basis of economics in terms of
both the work to be done and the reasons people do it.
Selma Singer
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
> Selma Singer wrote:
> >
> > I simply cannot understand why people confuse equality and sameness. Will
> > someone try to explain to me how allowing people equal opportunity to
> > develop their uniqueness will, ipso facto, result in everyone being the
> > same?
> [snip]
>
> I would once again encourage anyone with good library resources to
> read the eloquent and magisterial essay:
>
> Szczepanski, J. (1981). Individuality and society.
> Impact of science on society, 31(4), 461-466.
>
> Szczepanski distinguishes between:
>
> (1) "individualism" which
> he associates with competition between persons to each
> grab as big a piece of the existing pie as they can, and
>
> (2) "individuality" which he associates with having a
> new idea. A new idea is something which is absolutely
> unique, by definition, since it cannot be found anywhere
> that already exists (if it could, it wouldn't be *new*).
> A new idea makes me different without taking anything
> away from anyone else.
> And a new idea can, as a miracle of loaves and fishes,
> create new pies, so that all can have more.
>
> Szczepanski concludes his essay by expressing the
> hope that individuality shall flourish among us, and
> quotes Tertullian: "Credo quia absurdum"
>
> +\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)
>
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