Steve Kurtz wrote:
>
> Harry,
>
> It seems to me that humans invest more import into what is unknowable -
> the mystery - than into the mundane & complex stuff about which we can
> know a bit. Makes social contracts in a globalized world nearly
> impossible to form and keep functional.
>
> Steve
[snip]
I believe Karl Marx attributed this to
a mystifying economic system.
Interhuman social relations could, I think, *become*
a dis-alienated and proper home for the energies
that persons displace onto the alienated unknowable.
Robert Musil urged that Western culture long ago
took a wrong turn in its understanding of the
mystical, associating it with fuzzy thinking instead of
looking for it at the heart of the most exact and
rigorous praxis, e.g., engineering work.
Dr. George Leonard wrote a short book that is eye-opening:
_The Ultimate Athlete_. TOp athletes have
experiences doing their sporting praxis which
they dare not talk about in public for fear
of losing their jobs. (Of course, that was
30 years ago -- today language is so discounted
that they probably could talk about these things and
all the "last men" would just yawn....)
Husserl:
Transcendental subjectivity is intersubjectivity.
If anyone fancies that without Spooks-in-Heaven
life would be as lacking in depth as Levittown
before anybody moved into the houses, should
read Husserl/Fink _Sixth Cartesian Meditation_,
and Enzo Paci's _The Function of the Sciences and
the Meaning of Man_.
It is in my opinion very sad how much of the
best of "our" cultural heritage most of "us", including
many PhD holders from prestige universities, do not
even know that they know nothing about.
"Yours in discourse...."
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
