Rod Hay wrote: > "The will has no meaning in isolation. Therefore it does not exist" > The heart has no meaning in isolation from a body. Therefore it does not > exist. > The part has no meaning in isolation from the whole. Therefore it does not > exist. > There is something wrong with this logic, Ajit. ________________ Rod, why don't you quote what people write rather than make up your own quotations? When did I say "will has no meaning in isolation. Therefore it does not exist"? Let me try to explain a simple argument for the nth time. Husband has no existence without a wife, and vise versa. Neither the husband nor the wife has any existence outside of the relationship of marriage. Sons have no existence outside of the relationship of father or/and mother, and vise versa. We can go on and on. Do you get the point. I'm not as weak in logic as you think. Cheers, ajit sinha > > > Reductionist and wholistic approaches are not the only options. Both the > whole and the individual exist. Neither can be understood in isolation from > the other. > > Your "patriot" has a choice of which action to follow. His patriotism or his > rejection of this patriotism have no meaning except in a social context, but > the patriot chooses. > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Ajit Sinha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ____________G'day Rob! I think you are missing something. Let's suppose you > are > patriot who wills to fight and die for his country. Where does this willing > of > yours come from, where you a born patriot? The point is that the will has no > meaning independent of action, and your actions can only be understood in > the > context of a web of relations. So at the epistemological level, what good is > will > for? Its existence or non-existence has no meaning. We are not denying that > people > are different. Cheers, ajit sinha > > Rod Hay > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The History of Economic Thought Archives > http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/index.html > Batoche Books > http://members.tripod.com/rodhay/batochebooks.html > http://www.abebooks.com/home/BATOCHEBOOKS/ > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
