A Primer on Individual In Community

By Razie Mah

Why a series of primers?
These primers provide in depth coverage of the nested form constructs in the book: How to Define the Word “Religion”.
Primers 1 and 2 developed the category-based nested forms discussed in “the meaning underlying the word ‘religion’”.
The next several primer address “the presence underlying the word ‘religion’”. This presence can be appreciated through a fully differentiated model of “humans in our current Lebenswelt”. Humans exist in society. Humans organize. Human live as individuals in community. Each of these modes of existence relate to one another as a nested form:
Society( Organization( potential of Individual in Community))
Primer 3 diagrams the individual in community. Primers 4 and 5 present the organization tier. Primer 6 introduces the institution level of the society tier, starting with an example, the family. Primer 7 reviews How Institutions Think (1986) by British anthropologist Mary Douglas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Mar 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781942824022

Razie Mah

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A Primer on the Individual in Community

Razie Mah

Published for Smashwords

7815 U0’

2015 AD

Notes on Text

This third primer the first tier in a category-based nested form model of the presence underlying the world religion.

Tier A describes the individual in community.

Single quotes and italics are used to group words together.

To convert Ubaid Zero Prime (UO') to Anno Domini (AD), subtract 5800.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Apply the Nested Form

Moving from One to Three

What is Happeninga?

Me In Situationb

Judgmentc

The Community and the Uniqueness of the Individual

The Individual and the Mob

Individual in Community

An Application

Conclusion

Introduction

0001 Any discussion on the individual in community will necessarily be incomplete.

Why?

Every person is different. Yet, every person is the same.

Humans are too complex, and, often enough, crazy. Where should one start? The particular path taken in this primer may not be what others would choose. But, it is one that flows, for me, out of a grounding question, What is a person?

0002 C. John Collins writes about the person, in a chapter entitled What a piece of work is man! Human nature as it was created, in his book Science and Faith: Friends or Foes? (2003: Crossway Books).

According to Christian tradition, human nature contains two parts. The body is material. The soul is immaterial. This notion is called dualism, because there are two elements.

Some (still within the Christian tradition) disagree, arguing that humans are made of three parts: body, soul and spirit. This notion is called a trichotomy, because there are three elements.

Others say that body and soul are two facets of a unified person. This notion is called monadic, because there is only one element.

0003 Of course, I know what this means.

I may construct a category-based nested form from these terms.

Apply the Nested Form

0004 So let me pose the question, How do these terms associate to elements of the category-based nested form?

Here is a picture derived from A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form.

0005 What goes with the actuality2?

Clearly, the body does. The body is sensed by others. The body substantiates the soul, just