Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Form, Matter, Atomism

A Whole combines Form and Matter.  Form without Matter is a collapse into a singularity, e. g. a Black Hole, while Matter without Form is absolute disintegration, which is why the discovery of an ultimate indivisible particle continues to elude Physicists.  Thus, the concept of an Atom is only a heuristic device, and the concept of an Atom as independent of any other Atom mistakes the inessentially of any external relation for the inessentially of some particular relation.  So, the error of Social Atomism is that it conceives an individual human as essentially independent of any social structure, with the error of the concomitant Atomist Psychology that some Egoist principle sufficiently and uniquely determines the behavior of such individual humans.

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