File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_2000/bhaskar.0009, message 38


From: "Phil Walden" <phillwalden-AT-email.msn.com>
Subject: BHA: Bhaskar and God
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:25:32 +0100


Hi Gary

Yes you are of course right to point out that Roy uses the concept of God in
different ways in FEW, and in particular that he suggests that all humans
are God.  I admit to having much less difficulty with this formulation,
though I would like some more concrete suggestions about how this potential
is to be realized - concrete in the sense of being related to an analysis of
the capitalist economy.

But are you being fair to my claim that Roy puts himself forward as God?  I
identified in my paper to the CR conference one place in FEW where it is
very hard to read Roy in any other way, and I believe there are others.  In
addition when my friend Phil Sharpe charged Roy at the CR conference with
adopting the stance of a self-declared Hegelian world-historical individual
in FEW, Roy did not appear to have a reply and took the discussion down
other paths.

So I am sticking to my claim that Roy asserts in FEW that he is God.  You
may think that I am making Roy out to be more egotistical than he in fact
is.  But here I would appeal to all the unargued assertions in FEW, which I
regard as a sea-change from the relative rigour of Roy's previous works.

Clearly, Gary, you are finding something in FEW which I have not found, and
I shall be following your thoughts on this carefully.

Warmly,
Phil





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