Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Firstness, Individuality, Deity

As has been previously argued, the common concept of 'the individual' is a product of an abstraction from and an hypostasization of experiential Firstness, i. e. of one's capacity to set oneself in motion. However, such Motility does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, one has already been doing something, even if it is merely sitting in chair or lying on a bed sleeping, in relation to an environment. Hence, Motility, except in the case, if it exists, of a Prime Mover, is always a variation of some antecedent condition. So, Firstness, at least in the case of non-divine persons, is always relative to a context, and, hence, derivative 'individuality', and associated 'freedom of choice', are never absolute. In the doctrines that posit otherwise, the 'free' 'individual' is conceived on analogy with a sibling-less parent-less being, i. e. a monotheistic deity.

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