[lit-ideas] Re: Univocal philosophy as the value of transcendental claims?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 16:12:42 +0900
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What would be assumed, however, is the identification of
> a moral quality that transcends historical and ethnographic, something
> that would allow for the identification of theft regardless of
> contingencies.
It is clear that Phil has never been an ethnographer or historian. Either
might begin with some notion of theft taken from his or her own place and
moment. That notion provides an initial sketch or rough prototype of a topic
to be investigated. The investigation could, if pursued far enough, lead in
directions far removed from the original notion. The assumption that there
is some moral quality that transcends the historic and ethnographic is a
working hypothesis. Why not a series of "thefts," analogous to
Wittgenstein's games, with family resemblances that link A to B and B to C,
while A and C have nothing in common?
John
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