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In article <1993Jan4.232744.26482@genie.slhs.udel.edu> rich@genie.slhs.udel.edu (Rich Schwartzman) writes:
>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)?
>}
>}Now, to clarify, I am not talking about basic reproductive biology here.
>}I think we can all agree on THAT process.  What I want to know is where
>}does this amorphous entity called "the individual" come from?
>}
>}Let's work this one over for awhile.
>}
>
>The individual is the core unit of the grossly amorphous blob called
>society.
>

The notion of the individual, really self-consciousness, arises from 
the I-Thou dialectic...the consciousness of separation and relation.

Gerald