Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 16:31:57 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: Autonomy and the Gift Sorry! The previous message was accidentally sent incomplete. Here is the rest of it: What I find most interesting in this discussion is the emphasis on "Event", the here-and-now, the act of cognition simultaneous with the emotional feeling. In Foucault's language, "to change something in the minds of people" is entailed by the gift. In Lyotard's language, the "is it happening" happens , is the gift, a mind-changing event. In my materialist mind-set, this has nothing to do with immortality and immortals. Only the mortal posseses a mind in the flesh. The immortals do God's will, mortals autonomously flout that will and promiscuously destroy each other. If the mind of a living God, does not choose to eliminate murder by changing minds, the autonomous minds of living humans can, at least, try. regards, Hugh
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