Quotes 11-19-2013

“The principle of individuation in this cosmology is not a ready-made and replicable essential identity that constitutes us as natural kinds––a soul, a heavenly-endowed human nature, a rational mind, a virtuous character, a self-conscious self, an independent agency.  Rather, it is a qualitatively achieved distinctiveness in the configuring of one’s relations within family and community.  […]