Sorry, Leonardo,
I was just reacting to your starting definition, as someone who likes
to think through things. While the issue of community is important to
my job and life, thinking radically about it is just a small hobby -
so I can't refer you to any literature. I leave that to others who
might want to join in.
To spell out what I said a little more: while you dealt with aspects
of the interplay between communities and individuals later in your
piece, it seems this needs to be part of the foundations. We are born
into several types of communities; humanity as we know it
presuppposes certain types of communities. You appear to start from
the individual [text at bottom of this email], but the very notion
of an individual can't exist without a community - they are
interdependent. Each can be creative (generative) of the other - and
destructive.
Again, language seen as a community and as spoken by individuals,
seems a good, clear example.
Regards, Paul Fyfe.
At 6:21 PM -0500 24/6/04, Leonardo Wild wrote:
>Hi Paul et al,
>
>Mind specifying? Do you have any further info on this?:
>
>On Thursday, June 24, 2004, at 06:01 PM, Paul Fyfe wrote:
>
>>Are you starting from the right point? Isn't (for example) 'a
>>language' a community? Perhaps you need to rethink your foundations
>>and the generative interplay between community and individual.
>>Regards, Paul Fyfe
>>
>I would greatly appreciate it,
>
>All the best,
>
>Leonardo Wild
Leonardo having previously written:
>Now, finally, an analysis of community and what it implies:
>
>"COMMUNITY is the creation of an organism -be it through
>circumstantial, traditional or intentional circumstances- that
>allows individuals to satisfy needs through the establishment of
>social structures and social agreements (implicit or explicit) for
>the continuity of their common contents, purposes and goals."
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