Sunday, March 6, 2016

Perspectives, Worlds, Society

Through Reflection, one can enlarge one's knowledge of a situation, thereby increasing the possibility of efficacy in action.  Furthermore, one can learn that one's Perspective is a Perspective, which can be generalized to the awareness that each other that appears in one's world is themselves a focal point of their world, in which one appears.  Now, there seem to be three general conditions between Worlds--harmony, conflict, and dissociation, each of which can often be easily recognized when it occurs.  But, Political Philosophy, if not Metaphysics, tends to go further, and to posit that one of the three is the fundamental condition of Society, e. g. Leibniz and Rousseau, Hobbes, and Smith, respectively.  But, regardless of their differences, an implication common to three is that factors within a Perspective are determined by and are expressions of a general condtion, e. g.  a personal dislike by a general discord, in contrast with the Atomistic denial of any such general condition, a denial which can itself be analyzed as an expression of a general condition of dissociation.

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