[lit-ideas] Re: Here's a useful word for the list....
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:49:27 -0500
Well, the question that I assumed was being asked is what is truth? That's
a question for the ages. I agree with Pirandello that there ain't no such
thing. If nothing else, his way makes relationships a lot easier if
everybody's right and nobody's holding a grudge.
> [Original Message]
> From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 1/9/2006 6:35:00 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Here's a useful word for the list....
>
> Ursula --
>
> I'll do what I can. But what's the question?
> Cheers, Walter
>
> Quoting Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I am, at this moment, tarting up a first-year lecture on TRUTH. So,
> > someone send the answer...quick.
> > Ursula
> >
> > John Wager wrote:
> >
> > > I was taught that philosophy classes were supposed to examine and
> > > evaluate philosophical arguments. All my classes as an undergrad and
> > > in graduate school did that.
> > >
> > > But when I got to my first year of teaching, many many years ago, I
> > > found that students could not grasp the "argument" because they
didn't
> > > understand or appreciate the statements that made up the argument,
and
> > > further that they didn't have any appreciation or interest in the
> > > concepts that made up the statements.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Ever since, I'd say that over half of my efforts in teaching have
been
> > > to address the concepts philosophers use, exploring and meditating on
> > > them, rather than evaluating arguments containing them. Of course
> > > that means my students do not get to "truth" because they don't get
to
> > > evaluate arguments. I'm a bit uncomfortable because philosophy
should
> > > be about the "truth" in some sense, and I agree that concepts by
> > > themselves cannot be true or false.
> > >
> > > Am I doing the right thing or not?
> > >
> > > (This isn't a rhetorical question; I would like to know what you
think.)
> >
> >
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