Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1995 15:04:53 -0600 (CST)
From: CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: Re: Being and accident (specifically concerning Michael Hardt's book)


I would like to add something that i did not make very clear in my
last post.

The external relationships between subjects, bodies, need not be
considered in terms of cause but of affect. Internal, efficient
cause is being itself, while the external relationships smongst
subjects is not properly causal but affective. Michael does of
course speak of external cause as the cause of passive affects,
but it we remain true to efficient cause we must say that these
external relations are not causal but rather affective (this
being my opinion). As you pointed out Nathan, they are added
after cause. Again, however, i think the distinction remains
between the virtual and the actual, the intensive and the extensive,
the whole and its parts. And the subject's affective experiences are
necessary, and are the effects produced by efficient cause and
chance, not accident.

chris

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