I would add that one does not need to know what human emancipation is before trying to create it, or perhaps better, "go for it". I suspect most humans are actually so beaten down that they do not imagine a future as part of their present.
On 4 Feb, 16:55, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
