Jay Hanson wrote:
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> From: Lawrence M. Hanser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Do I detect some sarcasm here? Creation and evolution are not necessarily
>
> Yes, you detected a great deal of sarcasm. I believe nearly all Americans
> prefer metaphysics to science. It doesn't make any difference whether it's
> the Mystic Hotline, alien abductions, utility theory, or the Second Coming.
>
> I would give a band of chimps a better shot at understanding the world they
> live in.
>
> Jay
I agree that nearly all Anericans prefer metaphysics to science --> and,
if one includes "naive realism" as a form of (often unwitting)
metaphysics,
then that probably includes most scientists, too! What we need, in my
resigned but undaunted opinion, is neither "metaphysics" (especially
the kind that, in Borders Bookstore, is *across the aisle* from
the philosopy section!), nor "science" (naive empiricism), but
a genuinely reflective understanding of what we are doing, which,
as I keep saying, may begin with Heraclitus, but certainly is
pretty well developed in Kant, and then Husserl, et al. "Transcendental
intersubjectivity is intersubjectivity" (Husserl), what we *are*
is conversation (Gadamer), etc.
To repeat myself: We have hever yet been really modern -- or scientific
(or democratic, either)....
\brad mccormick
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