[lit-ideas] Re: The Short Answer
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 13:40:25 -0400
I know personally that there are tons of things I'd like to ask, talk about or
respond to that pertain specifically to philosophy, but that I don't have the
time I'd like for that right now. I don't think the issue is that people have
lost the desire to talk about these things, just that they don't initiate many
posts of that sort (as I don't) because they simply don't have the time to put
all the thought they'd like into sustaining them.
Erin
Toronto
Quoting Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I recently had an off list exchange with a list member regarding what might
> be described as the "Golden Age" of the list. I offered this in reponse. I
> would like to now post it to the list.
>
>
> A.A. People cannot be stopped from what they want to do. If they wanted to
> discuss
> Wittgenstein or Popper or Plato, they would. If they aren't, then the
> question
> needs to be addressed as to why, without short answering "new
> people". Michael Chase, for example, has posted, and no one has answered.
> Why? Are these people no longer subscribed? If so, assuming they want to
> discuss
> philosophy, why are they no longer subscribed? Is this not a forum filled
> with
> philosophers? Assuming too that there is a "new mix", can the old mix
> not carry on their own threads among themselves? Must the answer be as
> simple as,
> there are new people, so therefore we can't talk about what we really want to
> talk
> about?
>
> [End of excerpt.] Personally, I think there's a huge world out there.
> Philosophy is just one part of it.
>
>
> Andy
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