Yes Neil, when the focus is on words, true wisdom is missed. Some do lean toward being practical, including analysis. Others towards doing a comparison with the past. And, there exist the empaths. We know all three and seldom know why we lean toward one over the other.
On Feb 3, 10:15 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > The answer is that Foucault couldn't reduce any anxiety and that > Derrida has really only shown we should be less sure of more or less > everything, which I do find reassuring. The warning in both is about > totalising forms of thinking. My preference is for good old American > pragmatism and practical scientific methods where we can apply them. > Derrida can be read as asserting poetics and humour. There is a long > history of aporia, which we might take as revelling in roads to > nowhere, as in the song, or as despair in Wittgenstein that language > bewitches us in making us ask the same old questions, rather than > devise new ones. > > On 1 Feb, 03:52, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah, and when you get to where that road take you, > > be sure to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE > > > dj > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM, nominal9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello Paul: > > > I am "diametrically opposed" epistemologically to the Phenomenalist > > > position. Nice to meet you, however.... > > > "Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger left?".... Blind > > > leading the Blind.... > > > " Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern anxiety? > > > ".....Follow the Yellow Brick Road..... > > > > nominal9 > > > > On Jan 30, 6:36 am, Paul Grieg <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> This is one of my favourite philosophy interviews: > > > >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0&feature=related > > > >> Can any of you answer these questions: > > > >> Does Merleau-Ponty 'fill in the gaps' that Heidegger left? > > > >> Do Foucault or Derrida give you a path out of modern anxiety?- Hide > > >> quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
