[lit-ideas] Re: On linguistic and genetic uncertainty
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 19:06:28 +0200
The fact that English is a kind of global language is no doubt convenient
for the native Anglophones, but IMO it's livable with for the others.
Having to learn one foreign language is still easier than having to learn
hundreds, which would be the requirement in a globalized world without a
global language. No doubt there are drawbacks to this as well.
O.K.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Ever wonder why people don't post their messages here in either English,
> German,
> French, Russian or Hungarian? Or even some combination of the above?
>
> Walter O
> MUN
>
>
> Quoting Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>:
>
> > Adding to JMC's comments, there's a question as to how one considers a
> > signifier such as "society." To quote the Iron Lady, "There is no such
> thing
> > as society", in the sense that the idea of a space in which all
> divisions may
> > be contained is founded on an impossibility. The klind of universality
> > entailed by enlightenment notions such as "progress" or "eternal peace"
> > elides the way society is torn through with antagonisms, and that any
> > agreement remains provisional and effected by decisions that are through
> and
> > through political.
> >
> >
> >
> > John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't to speak of performative contradiction to ignore Rorty's
> pragmatism?
> > There is no contradiction between seeking the widest possible agreement
> > while also recognizing that universal agreement will never be found, a
> > proposition for which the whole history of philosophy provides
> overwhelming
> > empirical evidence.
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I find the view that, at the end of the day, when the spades are
> turned,
> > > all we
> > > can do is go with the maxim "You show me yours and I'll show you mine"
> > > displays
> > > a very sceptical (indeed almost cynical) view of the rationality of
> moral
> > > judgement, and of the possibilities for agreement amongst competing
> > > conceptions
> > > of the good/authentic life in multiculturally pluralist democracies.
> >
> > Med vennlig hilsen / Yours sincerely,
> >
> > Torgeir Fjeld
> >
> > http://independent.academia.edu/TorgeirFjeld
>
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