"Private property is but the sensuous expression of the fact that man, in becoming objective to himself, also becomes an object alien and inhuman to himself; that his expression of his life is his alienation of his life; that his actualization in his loss of actuality, his creation of an alien actuality. Because private property expresses all this, the positive superseding of it, i.e. the sensuous appropriating by and for man of human nature and life, of objective man and his works, must not be understood merely in the sense of some direct, simple enjoyment, merely in the sense of possessing or having. For man appropriates his universal nature in a universal way, i.e. as a whole man. Each of his human relations with the world, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking, contemplating, feeling, willing, acting, loving, in short all the organs of his individuality, including those directly communal in form, in their objective relation, their relation to the object, are an appropriating of it, the appropriating and affirming of human activity."
"Private property has made us so stupid and narrow minded, that we consider a thing ours only when we have it, thus when it exists as capital for us, or when we have directly possessed, eaten, drunk, or worn it on our body, occupied it, etc., in short used it. Although private property grasps all of these direct actualizations of possession itself in turn only as means of life and the life whose means they count for is the life of private property, labor and capitalization."
"All of the physical and spiritual senses have been replaced by the estrangement of all of the senses, i.e. by the sense of having. Human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order for it to bring forth out of itself its inner wealth."
"The superseding of private property is, therefore, the full emancipating of all human senses and qualities."
The colonial period of U.S. history contains a variety of interesting lessons. One of these pertains to the concept of a "virtuoso." The virtuoso was primarily characterized by curiosity. Rather than being overly specialized, the virtuoso explored a wide range of interests. The study of nature, art, literature, and theology all would have been pursuits common to this stereotype. This blog aspires to take this early category and use it as a point of departure for exploration and reflection.
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