[lit-ideas] Re: Euthyphro & Habermas
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:10:36 +0100
On 18. Dez 2006, at 15:46, Mike Geary wrote:
RP:
Philosophers have the Ship of Theseus at their disposal. In fact,
that pile of
planks in David Ritchie's back yard might turn out to _be_ the Ship
of Theseus
if they were assembled properly.
Yes, and I'm wearing Locke's socks. It occurred to me in conjunction
with this, does a boat riding the current of a river stand still,
being, as it is, always in the same river spot? Could not someone on
that boat then stick his Heraclitian foot into the same river twice,
even thrice, even as many times are there are grains of rice? Ha! So
much for philosophy.
Cf. the following excerpt from a Bruce Cockburn song - which i recently
used in dialectical conjunction with the well-known 'Heraclitian'
dictum. (I have quoted Cockburn from memory - corrections would be
appreciated.)
Traveller on a bridge
Awakens to find
It's not the river that flows
But the bridge that moves o'er
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
P.S. Other verses come to memory - although it has been decades since
I heard the song:
Feet fall on the road
Bound to motion
Thought chains be of gold
They are chains all the same
In the hands of a cloud
Liquid as Time
The herons wings
Well know the ... [last three words uncertain - please help]
-CB
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