Monday, May 7, 2018

Interest, Atomism, Organicism

According to Atomism, Relations are External, or, in other words, an Atom remains essentially unaffected by its relation to any other Atom.  Accordingly, Social Atomism entails that a person is essentially unaffected by how they treat another person, which grounds any justification of indifference to or mistreatment of others.  In contrast, according to Organicism, Parts are essentially interrelated, from which it follows that if one diminishes another, one, at the same time, diminishes oneself.  On that basis, Egoist justification for exploitative practices, e. g. Interest-charging, is undercut, and is exposed as promoting its antithesis.

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