[lit-ideas] Re: stilted
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:09:36 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Wed, 22/4/09, palma <palma@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cc: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, 22 April, 2009, 9:23 AM
> nonsense on stilts (the phrase) come
> from J. Bentham
> there also in the literature the lowerbound
> expression
> being "a shit from the heels up" due to the late G. Ryle
> (1900-1976) of
> Oxford.
1. Bentham, afair, used to phrase to describe the idea of "rights",
particularly in the sense of "natural rights" [e.g. the right to life]. But
clearly anyone who could devise a "panopticon" had some screw loose somewhere.
2. Which is better - being "a shit from the heels up" or having shit on your
heel?
Donal
Ldn
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