Re: SOC/CULTURE: Evolution or Revolution?(Was:"The meaning of philosophy and the lawn chair)

From: Mark Walker (tap@cgocable.net)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 06:47:36 MDT


Damien Broderick wrote:
> How about... *Aufhebung*, Mark? :)
>
Ah, you fell right into my trap! Now for some exegsis on the Hegelian
corpus....... ;)

> Sublation? Transcension? Absorb-digest-metabolize?
>
Ah yes, but I am not denying the existence of concilatory modes of analysis,
I am denying their applicability in this case. It is sometimes suggested
that Christianity aufhebens or sublates Judaism (not usually by Jews mind
you) but does Darwin's _Origins_ aufheben or sublate Christianity? Answer:
no. Is the question of whether we ought to transhuman more like the former
or the latter? I am inclined to think more like the latter.

> Funny that we don't have common English terms for this process.
>
>
Yes, why is that?
Mark.



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