... "Free animals could use a dictionary. Maybe like you, if I change the meaning of words, I can change the meaning of my life. I hope that's a fact." Jaime ...
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jaime.denada
Apr 1, 2007 3:47 pm
Below is an editorial by the late Robert C. Solomon to the New York Review of Books in response to an essay by Denis Donoghue entitled "Deconstructing...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 1, 2007 4:05 pm
I dunno Wil. Bygones don't have to be let go to be bygones anymore. It is a subject you and I could review for the dabblers here, but you have to wonder to...
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wsindarius
Apr 1, 2007 4:11 pm
It is a real shame that Solomon died a few months ago. He was a really great guy. WS ... From: jaime.denada@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sun,...
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jaime.denada
Apr 1, 2007 4:21 pm
You don't get it, Trinidad. Your attitude is less free and exemplifies a considerable obstacle to the very progress you seek. "Hospitality" is a better ethic,...
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wsindarius
Apr 1, 2007 5:26 pm
TC, Thanks. I hope that what follows makes some sense. I am very torn over all of this, I assure you. Philosophically speaking, and maybe just plain...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 1, 2007 5:29 pm
I do not seek progress. As a misanthrope I think I seek detachment, but then I can't be utterly alone, so that detachment must be selective, so I prefer a...
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bhvwd
Apr 1, 2007 10:37 pm
I just finished watching "300", the movie. It is a technological wonder, Priscilla did not recognise it as mostly animation. It is also augmented ancient...
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bhvwd
Apr 1, 2007 11:09 pm
... a ... No ... new ... any ... can ... this ... me!" ... programmed ... and I have had to draw it twice. It worked in close extremity situations I would...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 2, 2007 2:01 am
Sorry Wil, didn't mean to propose a discussion and then disappear. Company arrived for a Sunday chat and I was drawn away. I always look at Hegel in the sense...
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wsindarius
Apr 2, 2007 3:20 am
TC, Thanks again. I have put your comments in brackets. [Does he [Hegel] really consider that human history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom?] ...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 2, 2007 2:51 pm
Funny how words get tweeked up. Interesting comment. I was using consciousness in its simplest sense: just being aware of something at all. I suppose you could...
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wsindarius
Apr 2, 2007 3:12 pm
TC, Nice post. I can only do justice to it when I get home. But as far as Hegel being a humanist goes, some would say that he was the first...
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jaime.denada
Apr 2, 2007 3:14 pm
I propose that every form of communication between humans, including the arts, is a text, wherein the author and reader become aware/conscious of the fact that...
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wsindarius
Apr 2, 2007 3:36 pm
That would be the accepted wisdom on the matter. WS ... From: jaime.denada@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:13 AM Subject:...
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jaime.denada
Apr 2, 2007 8:30 pm
"Indistinguisable" should be eliminated. My bad. JD...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 12:45 am
TC, [The term that bothers me is "progress";. There are simple natural "progressions" that one could argue are made in the natural world: progress from...
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bhvwd
Apr 3, 2007 1:07 am
Maleck in his thoughtful movie proposed the point of conflict in a battle as the nidus of change. It is where the blood letting is done, it is where...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 3, 2007 1:14 am
I do not propose that at all. There are biological communications without any text other than chemical reaction. Text pre-supposes authorship. Is the cosmos an...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 1:25 am
Yes, it is interesting the St Ambrose, the author of "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" was Roman. The Romans never followed that advise elsewhere, and...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 1:31 am
You mean Stanley? Is he still read? WS ... From: cruzprdb@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 8:14 PM Subject: [existlist] Re: under...
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wot53_2000
Apr 3, 2007 2:40 am
Robert Solomon's books on philosophy, Nietzsche & existentialism have made a big impression on me & I'm sure on many others. I will miss him & the...
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jaime.denada
Apr 3, 2007 3:10 am
tc, Are we measuring the lengths of our academic credentials? Biology is the text you've read and now frames your questions. I said human communication. What...
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Trinidad Cruz
cribprdb
Apr 3, 2007 2:20 pm
I don't entirely discount metaphorical propositions, but this is not a clean metaphor. Human text is inescapably syncretistic, pretty much like philosophy....
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 3:57 pm
TC (et alia), As you are already familiar with dense texts, I can't recommend Alain Badiou enough. He is in the constellation of folks like Sartre, Foucault,...
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jaime.denada
Apr 3, 2007 4:16 pm
tc, You seem the most exclusionary inhospitable person I've ever encountered. I'm not surprised you don't recognize that my comments are within Derrida's...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 4:32 pm
JD, You might find it interesting (I found it all too apaulling, but that's just me) that Derrida's biggest self-avowed influence (said, as he was deathly ill,...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 4:32 pm
Sorry all, I hit "send" when I thought I hit spell check. Sorry for the errors. WS ________________________________________________________________________ AOL...
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PoetCSW
Apr 3, 2007 4:54 pm
... I thought someone told us words don't matter? ;) My greatest problem with most modern philosophy is that it is relativistic. I think words matter, deeds...
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wsindarius
Apr 3, 2007 5:12 pm
Me two. WS ... From: existlist1@... To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [existlist] Whoops! ... I thought someone...
