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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Individualism

Here is a point we may have forgotten.Freedom is not an innate idea,embedded in our hearts at birth.It is a western construct.But neither is it foreign to us as human beings. Since the end of worl war 2 most cultures have come to pay homage to freedom but, the author claims,freedom cannot be imposed upon people's who have no experience of freedom or no language of freedom,or who equate freedom and anarchy. We have seen that in the age of science and corporate power it is a concept fraught with difficulties -Remember Kant on determinism and Kafka on the individual in corporate cultures.

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