... and I hurriedly respond: I don't expect use of the word "decadence" to be value-free, but I like it when I can quickly contextualize the discussion, and...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 23, 2000 4:28 pm
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Byron, I'm afraid I don't have time now even to read your whole post, but here's an idea: "Relativism" is the strawman version of arguments that insist on...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 23, 2000 4:28 pm
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Dear Tim, I read it! I'll probably have to reread it, though. I'm about as tired (now) as you probably were when you wrote it (when.) I'll try to do it justice...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 23, 2000 6:44 am
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... A term that cropped up in phenomenological circles. I think Husserl coined it. I know that Alfred Schutz wrote about it extensively. It is a more precise...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 23, 2000 3:43 am
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... It wouldn't shock me if I did! But I don't remember when, or what it was. Perhaps I used Antony Flew's from his excellent little "A Dictionary of ...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 23, 2000 3:43 am
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Tim, back a little bit you gave a definition of 'relatvism': I can't easily find it now, but I had a problem with it. Perhaps you can look it up again. Perhaps...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 22, 2000 8:56 am
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Dear Tim, What is "intersubjectivity"? This is a word you used some many months ago. Thanks, Byron...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 22, 2000 8:35 am
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Timothy Virkkala writes: "Michael's formulation reminded me of a certain theory of pleasure, a theory that Herbert Spencer of all people insisted upon:...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 22, 2000 5:20 am
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... Actually, there are all sorts of negative "intentionalities" beyond satiety. I just used the one in the translation of Wieser. Gossen was the first...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 22, 2000 4:19 am
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Tim quotes H.H. Gossen, or rather, a marginal economist, Friedrich von Wieser, on a "law of satiety:" "In the case of every divisible need the first unit of...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 22, 2000 4:10 am
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... Ah, that's the second definition in my dictionary... the first is "fullness, surfeit." My usage is influenced by H.H. Gossen, Friedrich von Wieser and ...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 22, 2000 1:52 am
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Years ago I was arguing with a bunch of libertarians about the meaning of the word "decadence." I thought the discussion was going nowhere. And then a smart...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 22, 2000 1:52 am
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Michael says: "...I do believe you are making this a little harder than it needs to be. And *that*, I suspect, is decadent..." I'm at a loss to see how my...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 21, 2000 4:04 pm
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... So I notice. And while far be it from me to ever say anything in life is simple, I do believe you are making this a little harder than it needs to be. And...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 21, 2000 9:59 am
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I find this puzzling, and not as obvious as it at first appears. Incidentally, is it decadent to be thinking about this? * What would be several examples of...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 21, 2000 8:29 am
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... Me too. This came to me the other night, and it was one of those "Why didn't I think of this before?" kind of moments. I've been trying to say this for ...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 21, 2000 5:35 am
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... The first half of this, anyway, is so true that I feel like simply shouting YES! This is a good definition of that concept I've never quite had a handle on...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 21, 2000 4:51 am
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... I wouldn't so much say that it's wrong as that it is a different truth. (Uh-oh, I guess that makes me sound like some kind of Relativist, doesn't it?) What...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 21, 2000 4:36 am
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Decadence is what you get when the pursuit of pleasure is no longer pleasureable; satiety without satisfaction. Michael...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 21, 2000 4:36 am
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... This seems reasonable to me. Though I suspect that messiah and anti-christ myths come up also out of a desire for revenge... As in the schismatic Jews:...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 21, 2000 1:44 am
10
... Oh goody! A question at last with some meat on it. I guess I'll throw in my two cent's worth... On the off chance that you might somehow have missed it,...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 19, 2000 5:33 am
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... Nope. It is the avatar of the end of the world... a sort of anti-messiah... Gore Vidal wrote a pretty bad novel of the title, and Lord Kalki is a ...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 19, 2000 5:05 am
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... Or not really. I just double-checked, and it was "Eight Arms to Hold You." Eric D. Dixon "There is nothing less interesting than a fact unilluminated by a...
Eric D. Dixon
eric@...
Sep 18, 2000 11:46 pm
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... That's "Kali," and the original title of the Beatles movie was, appropriately enough, "Eight Arms to Hold Me." Really. Eric D. Dixon "There is nothing less...
Eric D. Dixon
eric@...
Sep 18, 2000 11:40 pm
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A perhaps depressing thought. "Kalki" (I think--I notice I'm assuming that this is the name of the Indian God of Destruction, perhaps it's some other name...
Byron Marshall
bmarsh@...
Sep 18, 2000 10:01 pm
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It is nice to know that eschatological terror is not limited to the West: http://www.freespeech.org/delhi/teling/i-r/kalki_etw.html Since my last name anagrams...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 16, 2000 9:31 pm
4
Greetings, Active Thinkers! I've been thinking about the nature of music composition, about what it might mean to be a composer. This kind of thinking might be...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Sep 5, 2000 4:08 am
3
... Whenever reading a work of fiction, and in certain cases non-fiction as well, I am visualizing the action as if seeing it in a movie. I often cast a ...
Michael Emrys
emrys@...
Sep 1, 2000 12:23 am
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Reading is a performing art. I've made a case for this thesis before - though not on this or any other email list. I mostly get incredulous looks, dismissive...
Timothy Virkkala
timothy@...
Aug 31, 2000 8:55 pm
1
Normally, discussions of "what should be on a list" should be addressed to me, and kept offlist... But Byron's Reading Matters post offers me a chance to start...
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