File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 63


Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 21:50:37 +0100
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: Re: humani nil a me allienum puto


Jerry L wrote:

>The original expression, perhaps, was also favored by Marx because of the
>implied internationalism. Thus, how different is the above saying from
>Aristotle's "I am a citizen not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world"?

The difference is that there's nothing there about being a citizen or not
-- a transition to the universal humanity promoted in an abstract way by
Christianity. In other words, slaves too could be counted as human, not
just as speaking tools. Funnily enough there wasn't that much historical
space between Aristotle and Terence.

On another matter, I wonder if Jerry could tell us of the general opinion
of squatters about the Iraq business?

Cheers,

Hugh




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