Abstract

I wish to comment on notions of man and nature as they relate to ethical controversy over transgeneic experiments. It would seem that the only existing plausible surface, the current substrate of discussion for this controversy would be at the juncture of common experience as it relates to the common good and the self and those areas of science understanding that are accessible by the same reasoning to the common person. This reasoning involves common perception of the world as space/volume and movement - i.e. distances and motion or energy - the familiar and proximal with which experience of the world is organized. Thus, the common man in argument with the scientist is required to consider two cases, his own and those of the scientist that are inaccessible to him in the language of science. There are ultimately, from this perspective two cases, the ordinary of the common person and the special case of the scientist. In the following presentation I wish to demonstrate that there is one case only and that science theory and practice surround a special self defined and self subscribing case that is not only accessible only from the perspective of science study but entails a contradiction such that either the world as singly nameable whole unique entity either possess a similar divide or is itself a special case.