[lit-ideas] Re: Plato as the first constructivist
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 15:00:14 -0800 (PST)
Things in their constructs tend to more sociable and usually they like beer,
while things-in-themselves generally prefer strong spirits.
O.K.
On Saturday, March 1, 2014 11:46 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
wrote:
Kantian Constructivism, as per O'Neill, Korsgaard, Rawls, Habermas, Okshevsky et
al notwithstanding, shirley.
(Don't ask me who Al and Shirley are. Isn't there a movie like that ...?)
"There's a social side to things in their constructs." Excellent display of the
kind of precision in thought and writing I require of my grad and undergrad
students. I should retire from university life ...
Cheers, Walter
Quoting Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>:
> Social constructivism doesn't hold much of an esteem currently (doesn't hold
> much of a currency, estametly), nevertheless and nonwithstanding, Plato
> hisselfes held there's a social side to things in their constructs. As per
> below, and see also further clever authorial comments as per piss.
>
>
> From http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/cratylus.html
>
> Socrates: Well, now, let me take an instance;- suppose that I call a man a
> horse or a horse a man, you mean to say that a man will be rightly called a
> horse by me individually, and rightly called a man by the rest of the world;
> and a horse again would be rightly called a man by me and a horse by the
> world:- that is your meaning?
>
> Hermogenes: He would, according to my view.
>
> PS:
> Let's say there's three possibl positions as to regarding the relation
> language to man and their contexts-
>
> a) man makes up words, so that when gregory, say, arrives, i decide to hail
> him horsely "hey, horse!"
>
> b) words make up man, so that when gregory, say, arrives, words have decided
> that i hail him manly "hey, man!"
>
> c) man makes up words howee\ver not in conditions of his own makes, so that
> when gregory cums -- fnally -- i hail him. period.
>
> three and only three options.
>
> yrs.
>
> phatic
> (inquisitor)
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