Shane Mage wrote: > (ad 2) "Consciousness of necessity--of cause and effect" is equally > impossible. > To have such consciousness means awareness of the whole chain of > cause and effect--ie., of everything that exists and ever has > existed in the universe.
Nowhere do I say that there is (or even that there will be) an absolute identity between subject and object. Like Carrol, who is clearly not saying that we live already in a free society, I'm also talking about what that free (or more free) society would be like. So, implicit is the notion of a *process* -- the development of society (which I view essentially as the development human productive powers and, along with it, cognition). > I don't know which of these two viewpoints is more nonsensical. My viewpoint is fine. Carrol's is nonsensical: > Freedom is the ability to act without considering the future results of > the action. Again, Carrol is not saying that we already live in a free society. He is characterizing what the freedom in such society would be like -- ignorance of causality. That is exactly upside down. Of course, it's a process, a dialectical interplay, all that... but is it towards building a "free" society where people will be mindless about causality? Is that the way to produce free people? _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
