From: "Greg Hall" <gregoryjayhall-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Origins
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 11:54:49 -0600



This may be a fruitless question due to the difficulty in establishing an 
answer emipircally or historically.  However, when Bhaskar says, "people do 
not create society.  For it always pre-exists them and is a necessary 
condition for their activity," I wonder: What or who first created society?

It seems like Bhaskar is not making a claim about the origin of society, but 
rather how society operates as it stands today.  Even if we take a 
evolutionary approach and say that society evolved as humans did, then there 
was some still some group of animals that first created society.  Or, 
perhaps we could say that the physical and emotional needs of animals 
motivated them to form relationships with others which then developed into 
society as we know it.

Greg
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