Thursday, April 5, 2018

Alienated Consciousness and Organic Consciousness

Another factor in the engendering of an Alienated Consciousness has been the standard Philosophical concept of One and Many being mutually exclusive.  Consequently, one or the other has been privileged, often via the denial of the reality of the other.  For example, according to Atomism, the Unity of any Multiplicity is merely nominal.  Likewise, according to Social Atomism, i. e. Individualism, any alleged Whole is actually a special interest Totalitarianism, and hostile to any Individual interests.  However, the ubiquitous example of the Organism, which is a Unity of a Multiplicity, plainly demonstrates the inadequacy of the standard concept of their antagonism, and, hence, the inadequacy of the traditional resolutions of it, including Individualism.  So, with the emergence of Evolutionism, in which the Species-Member relation is re-cast as that of Organism-Part, there now arises the prospect of an Alienated Consciousness being supplanted by an Organic Consciousness, via cultivation of a Species-Consciousness in Internet users.

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