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Subject: Mannheim, etc.
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 14:27:29 CST
From: Kaj E. Williams <kajw@cwis.unomaha.edu>

A couple thoughts on G.N.'s quote for the day:

"... Every individual is therefore in a two-fold sense 
predetermined by the fact of growing up in a society:
on the one hand he finds a ready made situation and
on the other he finds in that situation preformed 
patterns of thought and of conduct."

1. It seems to me that Mannheim is denying the 
   possibility of praxis by asserting this picture
   of a closed functionalist existence.

2. Given the later Wittgenstein's emphasis on the epistemological
   primacy of language, Mannheim's last sentence contains 
   an element of redundancy. Rather, the ready made situation
   is both conceptualized and finds expression through language.
   Therefore, it seems patterns of thought and the ready made
   situation are not ontologically separable.

-K.W.