Sunday, July 17, 2016

Species, Member, Alienation

Since Aristotle, the Species-Member relation has almost always been interpreted as Universal-Particular.  One exception is Heidegger's Being-beings, though his alternative remains under-explained.  Now, Marx's concept is Aristotelian, as is entailed in his concept of 'alienation from species-essence, i. e. dehumanization, which consists is a repression of an individual's 'human' capacities to plan and enjoy the products of one's own labor, for example.  So, like the rest of the tradition, he does not consider that the Species-Member relation is one of Whole-Part, with respect to which, the Universal-Particular interpretation is already an alienation, and the Being-beings alternative is what Heidegger calls a 'forgetting'.

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