Subject: RE: BHA: Flourishing, Aristotle, etc.
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:16:16 -0500


Hi Tobin,

In responding to earlier posts, I wrote some things that you had already said.  I think we agree.

Dick

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From: Tobin Nellhaus [mailto:nellhaus-AT-gis.net] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:36 PM
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Subject: Re: BHA: Flourishing, Aristotle, etc.


> In urging that we 'follow our daimon' I'm not of course invoking a 
> bourgeois individualistic attitude but rather the rich kind of 
> individuality presupposed by 'the free development of each as a 
> condition of the free development of all' which fully recognizes our 
> social interconnection but insists on the right (need) to freely 
> flourish providing it doesn't interfere with the free flourishing of 
> others.

Hm, it's interesting that Marx conceptualized free development in terms of individuals.  I wonder, does this perhaps run athwart his social analyses? In other words, is it not also true that the free develoment of all is the condition for the free development of each?  Or that my own development is freer if I contribute to the development of someone else?  (Would that be a "dialectic of love"?)  Why exactly is it that each individual's own personal self-development is the foundation, and is this not methodologically individualistic?

Jus' askin'.

T.

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Tobin Nellhaus
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"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce



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