[lit-ideas] Re: Tasting: the preparatory text

Eric Yost writes
In general, writers and poets have *more* courage than philosophers. Writers and poets go to darker places, within themselves and their characters, than philosophers usually dare to enter. Hence the philosopher's penchant for "clarity," analysis, and argumentation, all of which are, finally, a way of defending the timid self by recourse to generalizations and abstractions.
I'm diffident about engaging Eric seriously on this point, but I'd like to suggest (meekly) that a concern with 'clarity,' analysis and 'argumentation' seems at odds with a penchant for generalizations and abstractions.
And—if I dare—there would seem to be generalizations and generalizations, so to speak, as it were... 

Humbly,

Robert Paul
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