[lit-ideas] Re: Tradition sedition
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:54:00 +0900
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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