Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 14:23:36 GMT
Subject: Re: 'sociality' once agin



Jukka writes:
> Lisa writes:
> > Holy Mackerel!  I can make little or no sense of that,
> > except maybe the last bit, included above. "
> 
> Holy Spinoza! Who is Mackarel?
> 

Holy shit ! What is Spinoza ?


I think you, Jukka, make two contradictory statements :

1.
> That all started when you asked "what explains sociality?" I
> tried to say "nothing". There's no point to try to explain
> it. 

2.
>
> I tend to believe that human sociality and animal
> sociality are essentially different, despite the fact that
> homo sapiens is 'natural' being. Marx said once that there
> isn't a bit of natural stuff or matter in social phenomena.
> 

If they are different, when hominids hadn't differentiated 
themselves from apes they had "animal sociality". At some
point in time, they had developed "human sociality".

The development of one from the other HAS to be explained.

If you don't explain it, then why did it happen ? Lack of
explanation inevitably leads to invoking god and/or sparks
of humanity. Or superficially more scientific, langauge floats
down from the sky and lands on human beings, so differentiating
us from other animals.

Adam.


Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK

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