lacking any particular expertise on excremental deduction it would seem plausible to argue that being a shit from heels up is worse than havibng shit on your heel, since the heel can be washed, yourself is hard to wash-away
(Ryle, btw, used the expression in his rather harsh treatment of hi contemporary Heidegger)
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Donal McEvoy wrote:
--- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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