Greetings Economists, On Feb 6, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Sabri Oncu wrote: By western rationality I mean the historical attempt to separate emotion and reason, or subjectivity and objectivity. One without the other is meaningless: without one the other cannot exits. They co-exist and are in continual tension in every human being in every social environment. This is where modernism screwed up in my view: it tried to separate the the two and bring reason to the front by supressing soul, an impossible endevaour. Although I am in full agreement with the initial postmodern critique of modernism, in the end pomos screwed up too since eventually they pushed the pendulum to the other extent and denied reason all together, not to mention that funny language they use, at least, as I understand the postmodernists.
Doyle, Well that's very nice for me to hear. I strongly agree with this point of view. I'm most glad you replied and elaborated. I try to write about emotion structure and so forth. Very heartening for me to know you think this way. thanks, Doyle Saylor
