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Subject: aesthetics
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Date: 6 Dec 90 16:35:12 GMT
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Richard Shapiro says:

>This is a typical "free will" argument, and suffers the usual difficulties.
>Human beings are not autonomous, independent subjects. We are utterly social
>creatures: our very sense of self, our subjectivity, is highly constrained by
>the various social groups to which we belong.  This has long been one of the
>crucial, and central, arguments of feminism and the study of gender.  The
>"freedom" you describe is illusory."

It is illusionary if you have a habit of following the herd.  Only if you have
a habit of thinking for yourself can you have Freedom.  People are
interdependant, but each and every person has free will, and the freedom to
choose; if only they choose to use it. :-)

Jim Baranski


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