[lit-ideas] Re: Tradition sedition
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:26:52 -0330
1. transcendental argument
2. socratic dialogue
3. morality
4. ethics (in diff. from morality)
5. universalizability
6. cosmopolitanism
7. space of reasons
8. transcendental argument (yes, it's that important)
9. autonomy as an educational ideal
10. language game
11. naturalistic fallacy (Hume's version)
12. regulative ideal
13. democracy
14. aretaic virtue
15. the banality of evil
16. universal human rights
17. veil of ignorance
18. the social contract (Hobbes's)
19. epistemology
20. Dasein (no suitable trans. available)
Yes, there really are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who
can't.
No justifications presently available. Presently buried by midterms and a
funding freeze at SGS. After I surface, I'll reply to John W's very interesting
post.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>:
> A contest somewhat along those lines would be fun: Name the ten most
> important (encompassing?) ideas in philosophy and defend your choices.
>
> Mike Geary
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:54 AM, John McCreery
> <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Sorry, that was a long, long time ago, and I only heard about the seminar;
> > I never took it. I did take a course on Aristotle with Walsh, which has
> > served me well ever since.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> John McCreery wrote
> >>
> >> You would have liked Harold Walsh, one of my philosophy profs at
> Michigan
> >>> State. He ran a famous seminar in metaphysics whose premise was that
> there
> >>> have only been about seventy-five original ideas in the whole history of
> >>> philosophy. He jotted them down on slips of paper that he put in a hat.
> >>> Students drew five slips from the hat and were then required to construct
> a
> >>> metaphysics based on all and only those five ideas.
> >>>
> >> As every reader of Alfred North Whitehead knows, all philosophy is but
> >> footnotes to Plato. What I'd like to know, though, is what was on those
> >> slips of paper? Couldn't you remember one for us? I'll see if I can have
> >> some philosophical problems baked into fortune cookies and given out at
> the
> >> Pacific APA.
> >>
> >> Robert Paul
> >>
> >>
> >>
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