Sunday, February 14, 2016

Individuation and Dehumanization

While Individuation interpreted as Diversification produces parts of a whole, Individuation interpreted as Atomization produces atoms in external relations with other atoms.  Now, the Parts-Whole relation is Organistic, so, the interpretation of Individuation as Diversification is Biological.  In contrast, the concept of an association of Atoms is Inorganic, so the interpretation of Individuation as Atomization is Mechanistic.  But, to reduce a biological person to a thing is dehumanization.  Thus, the Social Atomism that informs much of Modern Political-Economic theory is dehumanizing.

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