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Society, World-Building and Thing-Making

A Phenomenological Investigation of the Social Process of Constructing a Familiar World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

W. Kim Rogers
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An animal enters the world with a set of highly specialized and firmly directed instincts which are correlated with pre-typified situations in the environment. Consequently it lives in a surrounding world, structured by its instinctual inheritance, which is specific to its own particular species and admitting only a limited range of variations within which life for it is possible. Man at birth is, compared to the non-human animal, an unfinished being, and his surrounding world partakes of his unfinished character. It is a world that must be fashioned then by man's own activity; he must make a human world for himself.

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Diogenes , Volume 22 , Issue 88 , December 1974, pp. 36 - 49
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Copyright © 1974 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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