Great text! But I remain opposed of your concept of naturalness. The concept and practice of freedom is not unnatural for us. For human beings, especially the most advanced, it is self-awareness that defines their/our naturalness.
I mean that if human behaviour is anomalous in the context of nature-as-mindless-and-absurd-wilderness, then what comes natural to us would be unnatural in the bigger picture. Reason, freewill, self-awareness, creativity, intelligent design, religious myth-making--all the human traits and behaviours that distinguish us from the animals and thus from the rest of the universe.
Great text! But I remain opposed of your concept of naturalness. The concept and practice of freedom is not unnatural for us. For human beings, especially the most advanced, it is self-awareness that defines their/our naturalness.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Freedom may be natural for us, but we may be unnatural in the context of nature-as-wilderness.
DeleteYou mean reproductively speaking?
DeleteAlways sound animalistic fallacy for me.
I mean that if human behaviour is anomalous in the context of nature-as-mindless-and-absurd-wilderness, then what comes natural to us would be unnatural in the bigger picture. Reason, freewill, self-awareness, creativity, intelligent design, religious myth-making--all the human traits and behaviours that distinguish us from the animals and thus from the rest of the universe.
DeleteConservatives are those who define humanity as unnatural for human beings.
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