Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Organism and Humanism

If a Species is the basic unit, and one of its Members is an Organism, then a Species can be conceived as a Super-Organism.  Likewise, an Organism that is part of a Organism is a Sub-Organism.  Super-Organism, Organism, Sub-Organism, are not absolute terms, just relative to one another.  They constitute a conceptual scheme necessitated by the jettisoning of Atomism, which is inadequate to Biological representation.  Thus, because Human Society is an organization of Biological beings, Political and Economical problems need to be represented in Organist terms if they are to solved according to Humanist principles.  Hitherto that has generally not been the case.  Instead, Human society has generally been interpreted as Atomist, i. e. as Individualist, with solutions to conflicts generally disjunctive.  Dialectics have attempted to present synthetic solutions, but these solutions are inadequate to a Biological concept of society, constituted by Organisms of varying degrees of complexity, the basic Atomism of which are still its fundamental terms.  In other words, in contrast with Evolutionism, Marxism remains an system of Individuals rather than of Species, and, hence, not committed to Humanist principles, even as they fight exploitation.

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