From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach

What our minds and conceive, our bodies can achieve. I will argue that “the mind is not then an autonomous substance, capable of forming its own states without recourse to what lies beyond it: it states arrive by courtesy of a specific external environment.” It means that, our minds appropriates th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jose Mario De Vega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: College of Liberal Arts, San Beda College 2022-03-01
Series:Scientia
Subjects:
Online Access:https://scientia-sanbeda.org/index.php/scientia/article/view/12
_version_ 1828345115323662336
author Jose Mario De Vega
author_facet Jose Mario De Vega
author_sort Jose Mario De Vega
collection DOAJ
description What our minds and conceive, our bodies can achieve. I will argue that “the mind is not then an autonomous substance, capable of forming its own states without recourse to what lies beyond it: it states arrive by courtesy of a specific external environment.” It means that, our minds appropriates the contents of the material world and this act in turn forms the other contents of our minds and its various categories. Hence, it is not a “surprising thesis that the very constitution of mind is logically bound up with environment. The geography of the mind depends upon actual geography. Undeniably the content of our minds is influenced by society and the world in general, for the former arises because of the existence of the latter. This conscious mind, Selfhood must lead to a collective thinking or collective minds that is utterly necessary for the development of the body and this development from further extend to the development of the body politic (Social Solidarity).   References   Aciman, Andre, (Editor) The New Nomads from Letters of Transit Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss Andre Aciman, Eva Hoffman Bharati Mukherjee Edward Said Charles Simic, Edited by Andre Aciman, published in collaboration with The New York Public Library, 1999 Bakhurst, David and Sypnowich, Christine (Editors) The Social Self Inquiries in Social Construction, Sage Publications, London, 1995 Barnes, Jonathan, Early Greek Philosophy, Penguin Classics, translated and edited by Jonathan Barnes, Second Revised Edition, 2001 Brown, Dan, The Vinci Code, Doubleday, 2003 Collier, Andrew, Marx, Oneworld Publication, Oxford, 2004 Condorcet, de Antoine Nicolas, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1793) Copleston, Frederick, S. J., Contemporary Philosophy Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism, Burns and Oates, London, Third Edition, 1963 Descartes, Rene, Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641) Engels, Friedrich, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Progress Publishers edition, translated by Progress Publishers, 1946 Engle, W. Gale and Taylor, Gabriele, (Editors) Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge, Critical Studies, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968 Fiero, K. Gloria, The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present, Sixth Edition, Volume II, Mcgraw-Hill, New York, 2011 Fischer, Ernst, The Necessity of Art, translated by Anna Bostock, Penguin Books, 1959 Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greek Philosophers From Thales to Aristotle, Methuen & Company, London, 1950 Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Section VI (1739) Jones-Lloyd, Hugh, (editor), The Greeks and their Philosophy in The Greek World, Penguin Books, England, 1965 Marx, Karl, Thesis on Feuerbach (1845) --- with Engels, Friedrich, (co-author), The German Ideology, edited by R. Pascal , International Publishers, New York, 1963 --- The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the Foreign Languages Publishing House (now Progress Publishers), Moscow, translated by Martin Milligan, 1959. First published in 1932. --- The German Ideology (co-authored with Friedrich Engels), (1846) --- The Communist Manifesto (co-authored with Friedrich Engels), (1848) --- Grundrisee, 1858-59 (1939) --- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, (1859) --- Das Kapital (1867) --- Critique of the Gotha Programme, (1875) Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1969 Mcginn, Colinn, The Character of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 1996 Mclellan, David, The Thought of Karl Marx An Introduction, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971 McIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue A Study in Moral Theory Third Edition, University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 2010 Osborne, Richard, Philosophy for Beginners, Illustrated by Ralph Edney, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., New York, 1991 Proudhon, Joseph Pierre, “What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government” (1840) Rousseau, Jean Jacques, “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men” (1755) Turbayne, M. C., Berkeley’s Two Concepts of Mind, in Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge, Critical Studies, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968 Weissman, David, Intuition and Ideality, State University of New York Press, Chapter Two: The Dialectical Cycles of Intuitionist Method, 1987
first_indexed 2024-04-14T00:06:56Z
format Article
id doaj.art-933e34c03c41415d90bbfa05b33eb3ed
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2546-194X
language English
last_indexed 2024-04-14T00:06:56Z
publishDate 2022-03-01
publisher College of Liberal Arts, San Beda College
record_format Article
series Scientia
spelling doaj.art-933e34c03c41415d90bbfa05b33eb3ed2022-12-22T02:23:29ZengCollege of Liberal Arts, San Beda CollegeScientia2546-194X2022-03-0111110.57106/scientia.v11i1.12From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist ApproachJose Mario De Vega What our minds and conceive, our bodies can achieve. I will argue that “the mind is not then an autonomous substance, capable of forming its own states without recourse to what lies beyond it: it states arrive by courtesy of a specific external environment.” It means that, our minds appropriates the contents of the material world and this act in turn forms the other contents of our minds and its various categories. Hence, it is not a “surprising thesis that the very constitution of mind is logically bound up with environment. The geography of the mind depends upon actual geography. Undeniably the content of our minds is influenced by society and the world in general, for the former arises because of the existence of the latter. This conscious mind, Selfhood must lead to a collective thinking or collective minds that is utterly necessary for the development of the body and this development from further extend to the development of the body politic (Social Solidarity).   References   Aciman, Andre, (Editor) The New Nomads from Letters of Transit Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss Andre Aciman, Eva Hoffman Bharati Mukherjee Edward Said Charles Simic, Edited by Andre Aciman, published in collaboration with The New York Public Library, 1999 Bakhurst, David and Sypnowich, Christine (Editors) The Social Self Inquiries in Social Construction, Sage Publications, London, 1995 Barnes, Jonathan, Early Greek Philosophy, Penguin Classics, translated and edited by Jonathan Barnes, Second Revised Edition, 2001 Brown, Dan, The Vinci Code, Doubleday, 2003 Collier, Andrew, Marx, Oneworld Publication, Oxford, 2004 Condorcet, de Antoine Nicolas, Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1793) Copleston, Frederick, S. J., Contemporary Philosophy Studies of Logical Positivism and Existentialism, Burns and Oates, London, Third Edition, 1963 Descartes, Rene, Meditations on First Philosophy, (1641) Engels, Friedrich, Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy, Progress Publishers edition, translated by Progress Publishers, 1946 Engle, W. Gale and Taylor, Gabriele, (Editors) Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge, Critical Studies, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968 Fiero, K. Gloria, The Humanistic Tradition The Early Modern World to the Present, Sixth Edition, Volume II, Mcgraw-Hill, New York, 2011 Fischer, Ernst, The Necessity of Art, translated by Anna Bostock, Penguin Books, 1959 Guthrie, W. K. C., The Greek Philosophers From Thales to Aristotle, Methuen & Company, London, 1950 Hume, David, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Section VI (1739) Jones-Lloyd, Hugh, (editor), The Greeks and their Philosophy in The Greek World, Penguin Books, England, 1965 Marx, Karl, Thesis on Feuerbach (1845) --- with Engels, Friedrich, (co-author), The German Ideology, edited by R. Pascal , International Publishers, New York, 1963 --- The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the Foreign Languages Publishing House (now Progress Publishers), Moscow, translated by Martin Milligan, 1959. First published in 1932. --- The German Ideology (co-authored with Friedrich Engels), (1846) --- The Communist Manifesto (co-authored with Friedrich Engels), (1848) --- Grundrisee, 1858-59 (1939) --- A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, (1859) --- Das Kapital (1867) --- Critique of the Gotha Programme, (1875) Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1969 Mcginn, Colinn, The Character of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 1996 Mclellan, David, The Thought of Karl Marx An Introduction, New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1971 McIntyre, Alasdair, After Virtue A Study in Moral Theory Third Edition, University of Notre Dame Press, Indiana, 2010 Osborne, Richard, Philosophy for Beginners, Illustrated by Ralph Edney, Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc., New York, 1991 Proudhon, Joseph Pierre, “What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government” (1840) Rousseau, Jean Jacques, “Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men” (1755) Turbayne, M. C., Berkeley’s Two Concepts of Mind, in Berkeley’s Principles of Human Knowledge, Critical Studies, Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., 1968 Weissman, David, Intuition and Ideality, State University of New York Press, Chapter Two: The Dialectical Cycles of Intuitionist Method, 1987 https://scientia-sanbeda.org/index.php/scientia/article/view/12MindsBodyEnvironmenSelfhoodSocial Solidarity
spellingShingle Jose Mario De Vega
From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
Scientia
Minds
Body
Environmen
Selfhood
Social Solidarity
title From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
title_full From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
title_fullStr From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
title_full_unstemmed From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
title_short From Selfhood to Social Solidarity; From a Mind towards the Collective Thinking and Working Bodies: A Marxist Approach
title_sort from selfhood to social solidarity from a mind towards the collective thinking and working bodies a marxist approach
topic Minds
Body
Environmen
Selfhood
Social Solidarity
url https://scientia-sanbeda.org/index.php/scientia/article/view/12
work_keys_str_mv AT josemariodevega fromselfhoodtosocialsolidarityfromamindtowardsthecollectivethinkingandworkingbodiesamarxistapproach