Re: a closer link . . .(was a dark novel. . .)

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Ian Murray wrote,

> While Socrates may have said something like the above; he's totally
> wrong  on the sentiment.  The love of money and power are manifestations
> of a fear of death, the source of the idea of a duality of the
> "soul" and the body. The pyramids and Pharaoh's say it all....

i.e., the following sequence?:

                          fear of death
				|
			       / \
	   body/soul dualism         love of money


Another possibility is that all three are quasi-autonomous manifestations
of objectified social relations and hence are mutually reinforcing but
none is *a priori*. That second possibility avoids granting ontological
status to the fear of death.


Tom Walker
Sandwichman and Deconsultant
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