State of Nature, Stages of Society by Palmeri Frank

Author:Palmeri, Frank
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI034000, Philosophy/Social, PHI016000, Philosophy/History & Surveys/Modern
Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC
Published: 2016-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

No matter how perfectly you have understood the usefulness of any physiological organ (or legal institution, social custom, political usage, art form, or religious rite) you have not yet thereby grasped how it emerged…. [T]he whole history of a “thing,” an organ, a tradition can to this extent be a continuous chain of signs, continually revealing new interpretations and adaptations, the causes of which need not be connected even amongst themselves, but rather sometimes just follow and replace one another at random. The “development” of a thing, a tradition, an organ is therefore…[not a progressus, but] a succession of…more or less mutually independent processes of subjugation exacted on the thing, added to this the resistances encountered every time…. The form is fluid, the “meaning” [Sinn] even more so. (Genealogy of Morality, 2.12; second and third italics mine, indicating the conditional tense of the verbs in the passage)

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