Continuing from where we left off in Part I…. If you can’t find the first part, look in your inbox or click here. The Political Community Let’s go with the second, that as social beings we are always with others. There’s no possibility of genuine soliloquy. Even when talking to oneself, we are talking to others. Isn’t that what’s happening: ‘Hamlet’ is a play and when the Prince of Denmark is talking to himself within the play, he’s also performing for an audience — whether a concrete theatrical audience or an abstract audience if it’s a rehearsal. Talking always presupposes others, or as Wittgenstein put it,
When the Exception Becomes the Rule, Part II
When the Exception Becomes the Rule, Part II
When the Exception Becomes the Rule, Part II
Continuing from where we left off in Part I…. If you can’t find the first part, look in your inbox or click here. The Political Community Let’s go with the second, that as social beings we are always with others. There’s no possibility of genuine soliloquy. Even when talking to oneself, we are talking to others. Isn’t that what’s happening: ‘Hamlet’ is a play and when the Prince of Denmark is talking to himself within the play, he’s also performing for an audience — whether a concrete theatrical audience or an abstract audience if it’s a rehearsal. Talking always presupposes others, or as Wittgenstein put it,