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A congenial thinker?The guy below sounds like he might make a lot of sense to readers here: And, yet, there is a tenacious strand of ordinary moral opinion that dismisses both objections, and continues to see associative duties as central components of moral experience. In so doing, it recognizes some claims upon us whose source lies neither in our own choices nor in the needs of others, but rather in the complex and constantly evolving constellation of social and historical relations into which we enter the moment we are born. For we are, after all, born to parents we did not choose at a time we did not choose; and we land in some region we did not choose of a social world we did not choose. And, from the moment of our birth and sometimes sooner, claims are made on us and for us and to us. We are claimed by families and clans, by nations and states, by races and religions, by cultures and communities and classes—all clamouring to confer privileges and responsibilities upon us, and to initiate us into their histories and their traditions, their sorrows and their joys, their passions and their hatreds, their wisdom and their follies. And if, in due course, we inject our own wills into this mix—straining against some ties and embracing others, sometimes severing old bonds and sometimes acquiring new ones—the verdict of common moral opinion seems to be that we can never simply wipe the slate clean. Our specific historical and social identities, as they develop and evolve over time, continue to call forth claims with which we must reckon: claims that cannot without distortion be construed as contractual in character, and which are not reduced to silence by general considerations of need. (Excerpt lifted from Anal Philosopher: Posted by jonjayray on Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 08:05 AM in Comments:Next entry: Back from South Africa Previous entry: Exporting Democracy and Freedom. |
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Posted by Guessedworker on December 04, 2005, 05:21 PM | #
Very well said, in so far as he goes. Where he does not go is to explain why it is completely impossible to re-invent one’s being simply through the agencies of choice or contractualism. It isn’t difficult to explain. It resolves into two basic issues:-
1) The key elements of consciousness and will, neither of which we ordinarily possess in the qualities appropriate for any kind of psychological creativity.
2) Wrong objective ... classically, Man who seeks to be free must be present in and to the world and thereby able to separate from that in himself which is illusory, albeit if only for a moment. This, which is possible, has no application to escaping or overturning the oppressions of external control or worldly power. But liberals, it seems, are simply too intellectually and emotionally impoverished to see that their whole thing is a crock.