On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:59 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Let me be more specific, you and/or Bernstein are characterizing an idea that > I basically agree with; that our philosophical positions are psychologically > motivated. And yet I shudder at the characterization of it as "just cover" on > a par with "belching". When I read stuff like that, I detect a certain kind > of misanthropic cynicism and nihilism and that makes me shudder. A perfectly > good idea is suddenly transformed into something I hate, that produces a > slight feeling of nausea. Matt said both belching and philosophy are responses to life. dmb, being a rather poor reader, concludes that Matt must think that belching and philosophy are on a par, i.e., that doing philosophy is no better than belching. Matt said that for pragmatists, beliefs are habits of action therefore philosophical positions are covers for sets of habits. dmb, with his usual difficulties in reading comprehension, concludes that Matt thinks that philosophy itself is just cover. 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
