Heck, being on this chatline is as good as being in downtown Athens with Socrates.
authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You are yourself a student of philosophy, I take it? --- In [email protected], Jonathan Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Findlay's greatest work is Values and Intentions (Humanities Press, 1961). Findlay may be the greatest philosopher of value theory of the last half of the 20th Century (however, value theory is a much neglected and ignored - i.e. out of fashion - persuit in philosophy today, thanks mainly to Heidegger and Wittgenstein). For nearly sixty years he advocated a range metaphysical views very similar to those expressed on this forum at the highest levels of academia. And nearly always he stood there asserting these views alone (his Gifford Lectures, for example, were notorious for defending reincarnation). But he left us many published books and his star should really shine in the coming centuries. > > authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting guy, interesting-looking site. Didn't > have a lot of time to poke around, but I've bookmarked > it and will try to get back to it. > > Enjoyed this snippet from the introduction by his > student/colleague: > > "Findlay was a moral vegetarian and often spoke of himself as a > follower of the Buddha. Once at a conference I saw him turn red as he > painfully voiced the view that while it was natural for tigers and > other carnivores to kill and eat their prey it was thoroughly > lamentable and in some axiological* sense, wrong. He believed in > what he termed 'rational mysticism' and held that it was possible for > the philosopher to use reason to 'ascend to the absolute' and arrive > at those 'places' which traditional mystics intuit through non- > rational means." > > * I had to look it up. Axiology: the study of > the nature, types, and criteria of values and > of value judgments especially in ethics. > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > The fish are biting. > Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. > --------------------------------- Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.
