See twins separated at birth. — frank
Don't get "environment" confused with "society" as it's used philosophically. Think social forces inclusive of cultural forces, i.e. the sociocultural as used also in social science, because you can't really separate out the two. Society is the bricks, culture is the mortar. — Baden
My greater peeve about thinking of society as some sort of Creator, especially in the case of persons, is that our understanding of consciousness is limited (possibly permanently since the investigator of personhood is always a person). — frank
I think it's just that at a particularly materialistic point in time, it seemed like a good idea to turn society into God. — frank
it seemed like a good idea to turn society into God — frank
'Society' rarely names an 'answer' so much as a problem to itself be explained: what are the conditions which made society respond in this way? And those answers will generally be local, historical, and concrete (even as they can play a part in broader anthropologies). — StreetlightX
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