"I. Claude Harper" schrieb:
On the contrary to this "Selbstentfaltung" -- self-unfolding
(self-development?) -- means a completely different thing: I only can
come forward, can express myself, can be productive if others do the
same for themselfs. More sharper:
**The self-unfolding of others is a precondition of my self-unfolding.**
Is this within the meaning of the word "Selbstentfaltung", or more of a
claim or a logical deduction or implication? And how is that last statement
(**) true? Seems like it would never happen if it was. Is something being
lost in
translation that would make that seem more sensical? Or maybe you mean
something more like a mutual condition rather than strict precondition.
Hm, I remember it the other way around:
The selbstentfaltung (self-unfolding) of the individual is the necessary
precondition for the selbstentfaltung of all.
But I really think that the point is it's a chicken-and-egg thing. Or
maybe rather: a scale. I can do something that's a bit of
selbstentfaltung for me, but in order to get to the point where I do
most things out of selbstentfaltung, it's a necessary precondition that
others are helping me, aiming to archieve *their* selbstentfaltung. It's
like this with free software: I can be the only person in the world
writing free software, because I believe in it and I feel better about
it and it's more fun than writing proprietary software... but if others
join in and we build something big together, we'll archieve so much more
*and* it'll be so much more fun.
Just my feeble understanding so far. [ox] veterans: Does that capture it?