Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 19:29:22 +1000 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Community and Ethics Eric/All, eric wrote, quoting Lyotard, > "It is not "I" who is born, who is given birth to. "I" will be born > afterwards, with language, precisely upon leaving infancy. My affairs > will have been handled and decided before I can answer for them - and > once and for all: this infancy, this body, this unconscious remaining > there my entire life." This sounds like mysticism. By definition, no one knows their unconsciousness. Psychoanalysts attempt to induce in patients a revelation of their unconscious. When the patient is able to recollect a long-forgotten, childhood memory, revelation is presumed, but accuracy of the revelation may be suspect, a distortion. Or it might be an accurate recollection of events that never happened, events that were dreamed. As concerns the biological and the anthropological, L's statement suggests a never-never region between hard-wired intelligence, nature's intelligence which creates a human form, organs, first heartbeat, first cry, and acquired intelligence (speech, walking, for example) of the conscious brain. For me, it also suggests that the community of inter-personal relationships which enable the infant to become a child, an adolescent, an adult, form its ethical nature long before ir is aware of ethical problems posed by religions and philosophies. regards, Hugh
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