Hello everyone On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:46 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Dan Glover wrote: > >> Hello everyone >> >> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:42 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> You make some very thoughtful points. But I think of a philosopher as >>> someone who is curious about the nature of Reality, or at least some aspect >>> of Reality, not necessarily someone who has an opinion about everything. >>> RMP was certainly a philosopher. I think, also, of his example of William >>> James becoming interested in the relationships between squirrel, tree and >>> observer is an excellent example. Getting underneath the obvious becomes >>> an obsession. >> >> Dan: >> >> I fail to see how this comports with my original post... David widened >> the discussion from amateur philosophy to include other artists. It >> was my intention to expand on the difference between the professional >> vs the amateur in any artistic endeavor, including, though not >> necessarily limited to, philosophy. I'm unsure if I made any good >> points though I will take your word for it. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Dan > > > Dan, > > My alternative view is that the differentiation between professional and > amateur philosopher is just so much cultural clap-trap.
That's fine... then we have nothing to discuss. Dan 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
