"Laws of motion"... you know, like the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
I almost wish I was kidding. I'll be schematic. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Last Word was Property. John Locke's "labour theory of *property*" was grounded in a *mixture* of theological and philosophical notions about "law of nature," the theological ideas regarding the Holy Trinity being heavily infused at their inception with Stoic concepts of *logos spermatikos *(seed), *logos endiathetos* (unspoken word) and *logos prophorikos* (spoken word) "personified," respectively as the Father, the Holy Ghost and the Son in the early Christian apologetics. The Word became Flesh and as the flesh has a property in his own person, the labour of his body and the work of his hand are properly his."Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property." By *association*, then: spermatikos/endiathetos/prophorikos is to Father/Holy Ghost/Son as Father/Holy Ghost/Son is to Person/Labour/Property. Admittedly, this all looks pretty clumsy and semi-coherent when stated so bluntly. The historical succession of the ideas makes more *narrative*sense, though, when you consider the political and intellectual circumstances that the various proponents found themselves in. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > For that purpose, it matters not in the least. But for Marxians, aware > that > > the explicit purpose of Das Kapital is "to lay bare the economic law of > > motion of modern society," the concept and theory of value are essential > to > > understanding the evolution and functioning of the capitalist economic > > systems. > > > > ================== > > Because, of course, only Marxists know what value *really* is or that > so-called 'laws of motion' is/are, axiomatically, the penultimate > metaphor for delivering the one true theory of capitalist societies. > > E > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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