[lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Philosophy article in NYTimes
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 21:57:34 -0500
WO:
> Just one darn thing after another,
"Life is just one damned thing after another."
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
But then Edna St. Vincent Millay says: "
"Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and
again."
But then again there's Michael Geary:
"Philosophy is what life isn't."
Or as Farragut preferred:
"Darn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
Michael Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 5:31 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fwd: Philosophy article in NYTimes
> OK, I'll bite: why would a history professor have "a bent for philosophy"?
> Perhaps what I really mean to ask is: What kind of interests would a historian
> have in philosophy? Aren't historians supposed to be empirical scientists? The
> closest they ever got to philosophy was the "covering law" model of historical
> explanation, but most of them eschewed the very idea once they were presented
> with it.
>
> Just one darn thing after another,
>
> Walter O.
> Director,
> The Popper-Hempel Department of Historiography and Psychoanalysis
> Universitaet Wien, Oestereich
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> This article has been making the rounds here courtesy of a history
>> professor (with a bent for philosophy...).
>> You gotta love the last paragraph....
>> Ursula, avoiding work as usual...
>>
>> wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
>> > A colleague sent us some good news on youth and the examined life which I
>> want
>> > to share with all of you.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Walter O.
>> > MUN
>> >
>> >
>> > I thought you might be interested in this New York Times article: "In a
>> New
>> > Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined"
>> >
>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?em
>> >
>> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?em&ex=1207713
>> > 600&en=6690d92b7d7470f8&ei=5087%0A>
>> > &ex=1207713600&en=6690d92b7d7470f8&ei=5087%0A
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Hi Jim,
>> >
>> > I thought you might be interested in this New York Times article: "In
>> > a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined"
>> >
>> >
>>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?em&ex=1207713600&en=6690d92b7d7470f8&ei=5087%0A
>>
>> >
>>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/education/06philosophy.html?em&ex=1207713600&en=6690d92b7d7470f8&ei=5087%0A>
>> >
>> > Have a great trip,
>> >
>> > Jean-Philippe
>> >
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