[lit-ideas] Re: Philosophy: A Very LONG Introduction
- From: Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:35:11 -0600
" I don't know why I keep studying philosophy; I just keep
encountering my own thoughts repeated over and over ...)"
You and I both, Walter. Only it's in poetry that I keep encountering
myself over and over again.
Mike Geary
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>wrote:
>
> Quoting Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> > Couldn't resist this one, even though I have no idea who the author of
> the
> > quote is, and I am not going to Google him at this late hour...
> >
> > "The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you"
> >
> > Neil deGrasse Tyson
>
>
> Methinks Neil over-generalizes. From the perspectives of Kant's "public
> reason"
> and Habermas's Discourse Theory of Morality, that part of the universe
> existing
> (ek-sisting) in the human mode of being is indeed under such an obligation
> (both moral and epistemic) when deliberating and judging in the public
> sphere.
>
> Oh alright, let's also include them trees that are capable of propositional
> knowledge, since it's such a festive time of the year. But not priests at
> their
> pulpits, and definitely no members of the Parti Quebecois.
>
> Walter O (who for the longest time while an undergraduate thought he had
> coined
> the phrase "The universe just naturally grows knowers of itself." Alas, a
> grad
> course on Hegel with Prof Harris at York U dashed my 24 yr old ego into
> smithereens (sp?) I don't know why I keep studying philosophy; I just keep
> encountering my own thoughts repeated over and over ...)
>
> Research Chair of Anachronistic Historiography
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> > On Monday, December 16, 2013 8:05 PM, Donal McEvoy
> > <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Those who cannot remember past philosophical arguments and debates are
> > doomed to repeat them.>
> >
> > Those who cannot repeat past philosophical arguments and debates are
> doomed
> > not to remember them.
> >
> > Dnl
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> > On Monday, 16 December 2013, 18:00, "cblists@xxxxxxxx" <cblists@xxxxxxxx
> >
> > wrote:
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> > Those who cannot remember past philosophical arguments and debates are
> doomed
> > to repeat them.
> >
> > Chris Bruce,
> > celebrating his (not my) 150th
> > birthday with a corollary, in
> > Kiel, Germany
> >
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