'Shop Class as Soulcraft'? I've read Kant, Nietzsche, Hume, Descartes and others when I was taking philosophy classes as an undergraduate student and many others since, am I going to need to read 'Shop Class as Soulcraft' too?
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:34 AM, david buchanan wrote: > > Marsha said to dmb: > Hahahaha... You ask Ham to think, but what you are really saying is that you > cannot think or explain for yourself so accept your second had source from > Wikipedia. Intellectual competency? > > > dmb says: > No, what I'm saying is that the problem with SOM can be understood from any > number of perspectives. In this case, we can quote a Wiki article or a > passage from Lila or from the works of William James or from the writings of > Nietzsche. Nobody has to take my word for it and this is not an idea that > belongs to me. Intellectual competence in this area means, among other > things, the ability to enter into a public conversation that's been going on > since before you and I were born and will continue after we're dead. In a > nutshell, discussing an age-old philosophical problem is not for idiots. You > gotta pull your head out of your ass and look around at what's already been > said. It requires a decent respect for the thinkers who got there before you. > Otherwise, it's just a bunch of self-centered, self-absorbed, solipsistic > bullshit. As Crawford put it, idiocy is both a cognitive and an ethical > failure. In other words, it's stupid and sleazy. > > > > > > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
