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From: Dave Griffith
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 22:26
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 22:26
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In article <1993Jan4.201735.18614@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes: >One simple question. No embelishments, no rhetoric. I just want a >clear, concise answer to this question: > >Where does individualism come from (and as a corrolary, where do >individuals come from)? > If there is any more obviously religious and unanswerable question, I've yet to hear it. You're likely to get any number of answers, none of them anywhere near verifiable, and most of them retreads of various philosophical arguments centuries old. Why ask this question of libertarians in particular, by the way? Surely one needn't believe in the primacy of the individual to have opinions on where they came from. If the above hasn't made it clear, calling this a "simple" question is either foolish or dishonest. -- Dave Griffith, Information Resources, University of Chicago, Department of Surgery dave@alex.bsd.uchicago.edu A man's best friend is his dogma.
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Newsgroups: alt.acvivism,talk.politics.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!alex!dave From: dave@alex.uchicago.edu (Dave Griffith) Subject: Re: One Simple Question for the Libertarians... Message-ID: <1993Jan4.222656.16724@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Organization: University of Chicago References: <1993Jan4.201735.18614@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Distribution: na Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:26:56 GMT Lines: 22