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 --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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