[lit-ideas] Re: Geary on Instrumental Technological Rationality
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:16:54 -0500
DMcE:
Ah. Not merely contingent but "radically" so. Where human life obeys
'scientific' laws it is surely not even contingent; and what is the
difference between ordinary and 'radical' contingency?<<
I don't know how 'scientific' laws side step contingency -- actually it
seems to me that scientific law would concretize contingency, but I'm not
going there, the difference between ordinary and radical contingency is that
ordinary contingenciers grant that while most of our individual histories
grow out of what has come before, I've encountered many people who believe
that there's room for exception, for God to work his influence for instance
or his miracles. Radical contingenciers, like myself, believe that even
God -- no, especially God, is a contingent being.
Surely this needs to be qualified: [deeply fearful and fiercely selfish]
_some_ human life has these unfortunate characteristics, but not even most
(trouble is we all suffer when that _some_ gets power over the rest of
us).
Donal obviously doesn't live in the South.
Human life on earth is not increasingly tenuous (not with over-population
rising as it is), and life on earth in general even less so. Perhaps this
makes your POV increasingly tenuous.<<
Actually over-population is one of the more important factors threatening
human life. Global warming, pace Paul Stone (who's stone deaf when it comes
to such), will fry us all in 100 years. Sic transit gloria technologici"
I was glad to see Palma come to Heidegger's defense. What he sees in that
Nazi, I'll never know.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donal McEvoy" <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:15 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Geary on Instrumental Technological Rationality
--- On Tue, 22/9/09, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We thing
> the world every bit as much if not more than we think
it or dream it. Life is a hoot."
Heideigger had a little-known planned volume "Being And Hootiness", but felt
it sat ill with Nazi earnestness.
Human culture is also radically contingent
Ah. Not merely contingent but "radically" so. Where human life obeys
'scientific' laws it is surely not even contingent; and what is the
difference between ordinary and 'radical' contingency?
and deeply fearful and fiercely selfish
Surely this needs to be qualified: _some_ human life has these unfortunate
characteristics, but not even most (trouble is we all suffer when that
_some_ gets power over the rest of us).
and that makes life on earth
increasingly tenuous.
Human life on earth is not increasingly tenuous (not with over-population
rising as it is), and life on earth in general even less so. Perhaps this
makes your POV increasingly tenuous.
D
Duckg RP's challenging post for the mo
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