Note 40 (Thoughts on Hegel Intro)

The concept of an "I" is the failure of self-referentiality; it is the (non)-thing that cannot be identified.

The subject is an object which does not exist.

This is the starting point of freedom, which is the non-identification of a (non)-thing, as well as of desire, which is the process of identification.

The pathway of self-identification, as well as the philosophy of history, relates to the interaction of four key groups of parameters, that which can and cannot be known, and that which can and cannot be made conscious.

Social acts are essentially the interplay of values; values are the modality of identification of the self and the collective. Social forms, such as discourse, norms, and institutions, are channels for this interplay, which may be dialectical, evolutionary or otherwise.

Note 39

All relationships among elements of different language games are metaphorical. Hence the application of truths to a contextualized model of reality, composing of elements of different dimensions, each governed through its own language games, is metaphorical, although the logic of the categories underlying the language games, and the ways they are applied (though not understood) are not, if such a description is to be possible.

Quotes 10

The game played between the state and the market economy takes place on a field on which two systems for organizing power to allocate resources and to distribute the costs and benefits of their production and consumption coexist and coevolve. A rough historical rhythm is discernible as the losers from one dispensation appeal to - or invent - the other in search of redress [See also M Ramesh on pragmatic evolution, or problem solving of issues raised by overdominance of one pole, for another driver of the process]...deepening globalization of markets intensifies the conflict to the point of calling into question the simultaneous maintenance of both democracy and the autonomous nation-state [given global markets].

- William Janaway