[lit-ideas] Re: Is 'All men are mortal' unscientific?
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:20:22 -0230
John jumps to conclusions. I was referring to moral virtue, not intellectual
virtue. But it's definitely an interesting conclusion to jump to. Morally, our
ends converge as interlocutors engaged in discourse; intellectually, everything
is permitted so long as we pursue the truth wherever it leads, come what may.
Walter O
The (Very Snowbound!) Rock of the Avalon
Newfoundland and Labrador
Quoting John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:56 AM, <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Let's try and
> > remember that insofar as we're engaged in philosophy, we're all pulling in
> > the
> > same direction.
> >
>
> In _Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian
> Perfectionism_ , Stanley Cavell contrasts Platonic and Emersonian varieties
> of the endless search for improvement rooted in dissatisfaction with the
> less-than-perfect states in which we always find ourselves. In the Platonic
> variety the Good is One. It can be envisioned as located at the peak of a
> mountain, such that, while climbers may follow different paths, they are all
> aiming to reach that same peak. In the Emersonian variety, however, the good
> may be as varied as the people who pursue it. The image shifts to a great
> plain, criss-crossed by travelers moving in different directions. At times
> they may travel together. At others they may travel in parallel, or their
> paths may diverge. That all either can or should wind up in the same place
> is not a given.
>
> Cheers,
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> --
> John McCreery
> The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN
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>
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