Against the Day after Inherent Vice again

[Paul Mackin]

On 2/20/2012 11:34 AM, Keith Davis wrote:
> At what point in "time" did we become aware of a separation of a self 
> from an other?
> An other in time and space. Is what brings this awareness a separate 
> being? What is this we that is aware of an other? Do we see this other 
> as evil because it brings this split in our perception, thus ruining 
> our paradise?

If you're talking about "the Other," pretty early in the philosophical  
use of the term, the point was that recognition of the Other was a 
constituent part of self recognition.

If recognition of the Other causes Alienation (which by some lights it 
does),  that's just something we have to live with--it doesn't go away, 
but is seldom fatal.

Also, by some modes of thinking, time (history)  BEGAN with the 
recognition of the Other.

Something like that.

P

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> Is the the Regress you mean?
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>     Ignoring the Regress.......like that....
>     feeds the reading that all Coehn says is being
>     satirized along with almost everything of an ULTIMATE kind that
>     all the bloviaters
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>     What the Cohen was saying reminded me of Velikovsky et al and even
>     Scientology - attempts to answer the immediate question but
>     ignoring the regress which that leads to (why were those guys
>     bad?)  what is badness? why should we be susceptible to it? is
>     there a remedy?
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