>At what historical moment was anything of the kind first thought? It
>doesn't match anything I have read in classical or other pre-modern
>authors; it seems to me a product of the socio-economic alienation of
>the intellectual. (Only an intellectual could envisage the redesign of
>reality; only an alienated one would be interested in so doing. But of
>course we first have to define reality; and 'real', like 'free', is one
>of those words most easily understood from their opposites in any given
>context.)
>
Wouldn't Plato fit the definition of an alienated or disaffected
intellectual? He certainly contemplated the redesign of much of the society
he was born in.
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