No way out for this list
Paul Mackin
pmackin at clark.net
Thu Sep 14 21:19:49 CDT 2000
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
> Moreover, there is no reason why the conflict needs to be
> resolved. TRP seems to take this position, not the position
> of the dialecticians Brown, Marcuse, Marx, Schiller. But
> TRP does not advocate conflict of the sort practiced here.
> No, and if human potentialities are to realize themselves
> freely, surely the sensuous, long subjugated to reason, when
> it reasserts itself, or even asserts its privilege as the
> taking of what ever pleasure may be had in accepting the
> hopelessness of the situation, must be prevented from doing
> so in a destructive and savage manner.
Yes, even in a hopeless situation it's better to be kind to each
other. Not much of an answer but the only one there is.
P.
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