/lit/ - Literature

>>17107124
the real thing in itself was the spirit we became along the way, bro

did someone say 'hierarchy of religious structures'?
http://www.hegel.net/en/e332.htm

>>11044613

>>10596470
absolute idealism

>>10308770
>If a group of people have a shared experience they can create an identity around it. It's an identity if people identify with it.
This is literally just a rerun of protagoras "man is the measure of all things"-argument. Human identity isn't a question of "shared" group experience, because no experience is truly shared - it's not even identical with itself, Identity is something which always escapes from its own claims to universality into the particular and then tries to find answers to the questions that apparent contradiction poses, transforming the whole system in the process.
Deaf people don't create their own reality where sound doesn't exist, they live in the same world we do, knowing that it does. Just like we don't pretend that the color spectrum we're able to see is the objective reality, just like deaf people try to, in their own way, understand what sound might be, we too want to grasp the world which lies beyond our own immediate sensory range, artistically, philosophically and scientifically.

Actually, all things are the measure of man, and the things we experience are just a small, constantly shifting subset of that ultimate, unquantifiable totality. If you delude yourself into thinking that identity means subjective belonging, being identical with yourself and your group you're depriving yourself of the possibility of becoming an individual. A trans person putting a shit-ton of effort into trying to change sex, to construct their identity around superficial criteria, is chasing a dream, something that doesn't even matter, they're simply being mislead by their own neurology.