THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LIVING AN ISOLATED EXISTENCE: METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS

I. Onwuatuegwu
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Man has since his evolution grown one stage of his socio-economic and socio-political existence to another. Through the ages of man’s development, one thing has remained sacrosanct; that is man’s interaction with one another. The existence of man has shown that in the nature of man, man has unlimited wants or insatiable needs, howbeit, his limited resources cannot proffer all that man may want or need at any given time, place and circumstances. The fact that man has limited resources which are unequally distributed by nature, invention and innovation, it follows that what one man has but does not need it, another man lacks, and needs it. This became the inception of trade, exchange and eventual confirmation of the impossibility of living an isolated existence. From the foregoing; it is ideal to assert that ‘no man is an island’, which implies that no man can exist on his own, providing all he may need and want and still survives in the average expectation of survival. The statement that ‘no man can exist on his own’ should rather be read as “it is impossible for a man to exist on his own”. This is to say, although one may live an isolated existence, it is impossible for one to live in an isolated existence and even in situations where it happens, it is accompanied with serious metaphysical implications. Therefore, this paper tends to make a discourse on the impossibility of living an isolated existence, with peculiar attention on the metaphysical implications of such.
孤立生活的不可能性:形而上的含义
自进化以来,人类的社会经济和社会政治存在从一个阶段发展到另一个阶段。在人类发展的历史长河中,有一样东西始终是神圣不可侵犯的;这就是人与人之间的互动。人的存在表明,在人的本性中,人有无限的欲望或永不满足的需要,然而,他有限的资源不能提供人在任何特定的时间、地点和情况下可能想要或需要的所有东西。事实上,人类的资源是有限的,而这些资源是由自然、发明和创新分配的,因此,一个人拥有但不需要的东西,另一个人却缺乏,却需要它。这成为了贸易、交换的开端,并最终证实了孤立生活是不可能的。从前述的;主张“没有人是一座孤岛”是一种理想的说法,这意味着没有人能够独自生存,提供他所需要和想要的一切,并且仍然以平均的生存预期生存。“没有人能独自生存”这句话应该被理解为“一个人不可能独自生存”。这就是说,虽然一个人可能过着孤立的生活,但一个人不可能生活在孤立的生活中,即使在这种情况下,它也伴随着严重的形而上学含义。因此,本文倾向于对孤立存在的不可能性进行论述,并特别关注这种不可能性的形而上学含义。
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