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THE PARALLEL as a theoretical pattern of thinking

by Palang Latif (this short essay bases on an excerpt of another essay by Palang entitled: The Self. See our German site for that.)

The homocentrical human considers himself to be in a parallel position to the other natural phenomenons. Nature is felt as if merely producing itself out of an almost passive condition, nature is seen as a huge complex of causality and determinism.

The subsumation “nature”, in the concept of homocentrism, is even judged as something passive there where it in fact has been banned into non-existence, while the idea of “the human” is thought to exclusively represent a comprehensive awareness of-what-means-presence, per se.

There is an imaginary parallel condition, and on one hand you have the so called passive “natural world” and on the other hand you have the so called “aware” human state of being. That means, in other words, that what is external to the human state of being, is localised and being put into the dimension of standing in opposition, in a specific type of way. This type of way is most easily to be compared with the parallel: THE PARALLEL STANDS IN RELATION BUT WITHOUT CONNECTION.

A parallel, which represents an ideal circumstance for measuring the one side to the other, seen from the perspective of denying the existence of the others by classifying everything except the “self-concept” as being relatively narrow in function. That what is other, is not simple enough to be fit into the simplicity of the system of homocentricity. The reality of Animals and the Nature is by far too complex.

This also means, a highly complex form is subjugated to being translated into the simplifying procedure of scientific proof, to then be considered as a bit more important on its side of the parallel. The complexity remains on its side of the parallel, and cannot jump the line, but can increase in meaning alone by its being existent in the same dimension as the human being is.

The separation, that the parallel creates, stands in dependence of the understanding of “self” (the self-concept), since nothing else can banish the one immediate reality, that threatens to run into the acts of definition and deduction.

The real would thus end up dissolving the homocentrical tendency for determinism.

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