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sean · 09-18-2009, 03:58 AM

I should add that Aristotelian arguments stemming from the social forms of the telos of the polis are machinist, in that they honour the human superorganism, the city-state. This organism does not have human qualities, or human values, and it's own values are not relevant to what is good for human beings.

Not only are they not relevant, they are inimical. The city-state is to the human subject what a Silon is to Starbuck.

09-18-2009, 03:58 AM	#77
sean you ask me Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 56	I should add that Aristotelian arguments stemming from the social forms of the telos of the polis are machinist, in that they honour the human superorganism, the city-state. This organism does not have human qualities, or human values, and it's own values are not relevant to what is good for human beings. Not only are they not relevant, they are inimical. The city-state is to the human subject what a Silon is to Starbuck. Last edited by sean; 09-18-2009 at 05:02 AM.