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At The Classical Origins Of Philosophic Thought, The Transcending Concepts Remained Committed To The Prevailing Separation Between Intellectual And Manual Labor To The Established Society Of Enslavement. ... Those Who Bore The Brunt Of The Untrue Reality And Who, Therefore, Seemed To Be Most In Need Of Attaining Its Subversion Were Not The Concern Of Philosophy. It Abstracted From Them And Continued To Abstract From Them.

It Is Generally Admitted That The Cultural Values (humanization) And The Existing Institutions And Policies Of Society Are Rarely,if Ever, In Harmony. This Opinion Has Found Expression In The Distinction Between Culture And Civilization, According To Which "culture" Refers To Some Higher Dimension Of Human Autonomy And Fulfillment, While "civilization" Designates The Realm Of Necessity, Of Socially Necessary Work And Behavior, Where Man Is Not Really Himself And In His Own Element But Is Subject To Heteronomy, To External Conditions And Needs.

The Range Of Socially Permissible And Desirable Satisfaction Is Greatly Enlarged, But Through This Satisfaction, The Pleasure Principle Is Reduced Deprived Of The Claims Which Are Irreconcilable With The Established Society. Pleasure, Thus Adjusted, Generates Submission.

The Societal Division Of Labor Obtains The Dignity Of An Ontological Condition.

The People Are Led To Find In The Productive Apparatus The Effective Agent Of Thought And Action To Which Their Personal Thought And Action Can And Must Be Surrendered. And In This Transfer, The Apparatus Also Assumes The Role Of A Moral Agent. Conscience Is Absolved By Reification.