[lit-ideas] Re: Here's a useful word for the list....
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John Wager <johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:14:26 -0330
John --
I accept your question as a sincere one. But I'm not really clear on the issue
here. It would help if you could explain what you mean by the following:
> I decided the first thing I should do is try to teach the value of
> philosophical CONCEPTS, before puting them into an argument. "Arete"
> ("virtue") is something that one should understand even before
> evaluating how successful Aristotle is in making an argument about this
> concept.
How can you teach A's conception of "virtue" without examining the arguments and
claims he presents about it? A. develops an entire theory of the nature and
conditions of virtue. (Nothing to do with MORAL virtue, of course, in the
modern sense of "moral." That is its fundamental defect.)
Cheers, Walter O.
Memorial U
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>
> (This isn't a rhetorical question; I would like to know what you think.)
>
> wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> >A concept can't be true. Only statements, judgments have a truth value.
> Concepts
> >can be useful, coherent, possessing wider extension than another concept,
> >lesser intension than another, inspiring, noble, sublime, motivationally
> >ert/inert. They can't be physically extended or coloured, are odourless,
> are
> >not possessed in coherent form by any member of the American Reublican or
> >Canadian Conservative party, and they don't taste good with leg of lamb
> with
> >rosemary and sage (isn't there a song like that?) So I go "We should, like
> >y'know, care for language and thought as we do for the planet and our own
> >souls, or sumptin like that." And then she goes: "Yeah, whatever." Like,
> you
> >know what I mean? Like, get a life.
> >
> >Realizing that most of the students who will appear in my undergrad classes
> >tomorrow were born when or after I turned thirty (and still trustable).
> >Your friendly neighbourhood baby boomer, Walter
> >
> >No, I sat out Woodstock. Not the camping type.
> >
> >Quoting JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx:
> >
> >
> >
> >> <><< A panel of linguists has decided the word that best reflects
> >> 2005 is
> >> "truthiness," defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or
> >> believes
> >> to be true, rather than the facts. >>
> >
>
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------
> "Never attribute to malice that which can be
> explained by incompetence and ignorance."
> -------------------------------------------------
> John Wager johnwager@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Forest Park, IL, USA
>
>
>
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