Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:38:33 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HAB: "The real nature of man..."


 "The real nature of man is the totality of social relations."
-Karl Marx
(Karl Marx: Selected Writings in Sociology and Social Philosophy, p.
83)

"For liberal ironists there is no answer to the question "Why not be
cruel?" - no noncircular theoretical backup for the belief that cruelty
is horrible. [...] Anybody who thinks that there are well-grounded
theoretical answers to this sort of question - algorithms for resolving
moral dilemmas of this sort - is still, in his heart, a theologician or
a metaphysic."
-Richard Rorty
(Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, p. xv)

"the point of social organization is to let everybody have a chance at
self-creation to the best of his or her abilities"
-Richard Rorty
(Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, p. 84)

Rorty has a good point.

--Tom

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