Dmb: "Moyers asks Campbell about the meaning of life. Right away, Campbell says something like... I don't think "meaning" is what people really want, even if they think they do. What they really want is to feel like they're alive, you know, really in it. ...And then he told a little story about a race he ran at a track meet. He'd been involved in the sport for years, he was well trained, experienced and feeling real good that day. Everything was working for him and he had that feeling. He felt totally alive because there was a certain quality of engagment with that activity such that it was excellent beyond words. I supposed he won the race too, but that's beside the point. The thing that he points to here is a certain quality of engaged activity, of really gooving on it, being deeply interested in the outcome and the process. Think motorcycle repair or sailing or writing or whatever. Intellectual activities are not excluded from this level of engagement. This roughly what Dewey means by an aesthetic experience and it figures into his theory of inquiry too. I imagine that conversations could be conducted with this quality of engagement too, but I suspect that's not exactly what Rorty's solidarity is all about."
[[ron] Dmb, I was reading the Upanishads last evening. And like your statement it cautioned Against a single path, even enlightened ones, seems the idea is to be present In the experience intellect and all, it described it as a transcendence. Not, as you said, reside in the mind of a baby, not literally anyway. Like I was trying to express, we really can't shed intellect. But it is a balanced intellectual awareness which we're after. One that endeavors to shed prejudices and be more present in Immediate experience. There is a whole array of experience we shut ourselves Off from due to cultural prejudices and conventions. Once we cease to allow culture to make our value decisions and make Them for ourselves we can expand beyond cultural boundaries And step into a larger self. Ham should at least appreciate this aspect of MOQ, Where scientific method is given more objective precision by Opening up a universe of possibilities previously excluded. _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
