George, Can you envision the the pogroms as an existential experiment gone wrong? Bill ... From: "George Walton" <george@...> To:...
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Bill Harris
bhvwd@...
Dec 28, 2001 4:39 pm
I want to use some modern interrogation techniques on whoever heard this god say THOU SHALT NOT KILL. A little pentothol might resurrect a more empirical...
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Dave Hall
existentialdave
Dec 28, 2001 7:48 pm
Eduard; Hold on: I didn't say anything about rejecting math, the sciences, and communications protocols -- none of these are exclusive to Morals. Every animal...
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Dave Hall
existentialdave
Dec 28, 2001 8:08 pm
I have a question that perhaps someone can answer with regard to "The Ten Commandments." While in college I ran across a book in research that said the archaic...
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Dave Hall
existentialdave
Dec 28, 2001 8:49 pm
So, too, did the Christian Messiah, Joshua Ben Nazareth, but not much is he quoted say that wasn't contradictory or gibberish. How about some of these: The...
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greg goodwin
ggoodwin56@...
Dec 28, 2001 10:37 pm
Ahhh, the beginning of the " do as I say, bot as I do" philosophy ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2001 3:45 am
Bill, I feel for you. But that does not change the concept of morals and morality as a means of making a society work. It may well be that in your neck of...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2001 4:07 am
Is it Jim? Anyway ... The Bible is more of a history book. Sure, there is a lot of killing, but that does not invalidate the rule. Any more than Christ's...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2001 5:21 am
Dave, I agree that math, sciences, etc are not exclusive to Morals. In fact they have nothing to do with morals. Sure, animals communicate; we are not in...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2001 6:32 am
Dave, Yes. I could also go through the Bible and pick out parts that are not attractive. We could come up with a very extensive list. And our list will not...
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masha
masha@...
Dec 29, 2001 3:59 pm
... Yes "mono-ism"; is a pain in the butt. There are millions of suckers out there that believe that one thing or the other is THE WAY. It might be interesting...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 29, 2001 6:54 pm
Masha, The very fact that George has come up with at least 8 major social entities, indicates that "mono-ism"; is not the reality. I would grant that in past ...
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james tan
tkgty
Dec 30, 2001 2:00 am
the human's love for absolute..! james. From: greg goodwin <ggoodwin56@...> Reply-To: existlist@yahoogroups.com To: existlist@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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james tan
tkgty
Dec 30, 2001 3:07 am
eduard's thinking is basically essentialist in tradition; it is not existentialist. which is not to discredit it. james. From: "Eduard Alf"...
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james tan
tkgty
Dec 30, 2001 3:10 am
it is not so much sartre was wrong as u have misunderstood him. whether to marry or not, to use your example, depends on your situation, and this situation is...
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james tan
tkgty
Dec 30, 2001 9:16 am
lying to the nazis to save the lives of jews and lying to your school teachers because you have not done your assignments risking failing your semester: both...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2001 9:55 pm
james, Well it took me perhaps most of the day to find out what "essentialist" meant. I am still not too sure I know, considering the multitudinous ways in...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2001 11:23 pm
james, I think I will throw my two cents in here. Does not the phrase "choosing for the world" really relate to the responsibility that Sartre says every human...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 30, 2001 11:57 pm
james, I do not agree that, "we define morality not just for one, but for all" If by "morality"; you mean the moral code for something, then this would not make...
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Roggles457@...
Dec 31, 2001 6:48 am
I think I'll toss my thoughts into the mix. The difference between Morality and Ethics is not very clearcut, and I severely doubt, we'll come to any ...
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jascook12
Dec 31, 2001 6:47 pm
Could someone please explain what existentialism means?...
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jascook12
Dec 31, 2001 7:01 pm
I am interested in reading and learning about extentialism. If any of the group members could help me I would appreciate this very much. I would ask for a list...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2001 8:23 pm
Ryan, If Ethics is a complex set of rules, then the fundamental question is, whose rules? And in the end that is really what this discussion is about. Whether...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2001 8:29 pm
jascook, existentialism is a word used to identify a philosophy that was advanced by Jean-Paul Sartre in the late 1940s. It has, however, its origins in ...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2001 8:38 pm
Jim, A possible first step would be to visit: http://www.tameri.com/csw/exist/index.html The following are URLs for Sartre's play, "No Exit" which is of...
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George Walton
george@...
Dec 31, 2001 8:42 pm
jas... To ask what existentialism "means" is to more or less miss the point of what it is trying to convey about meaning itself: it's existential. Think of it,...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2001 8:54 pm
George, I think Jim's question was fairly straight forward in wishing to know the meaning of "existentialism". Perhaps it is a bit too early to introduce him ...
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jascook12
Dec 31, 2001 11:11 pm
Eduard Alf, I want to thank you for writing me about the web site tameri.com The site is explaining some of the ideas on existentialism that I did not...
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jascook12
Dec 31, 2001 11:15 pm
George, Thank you for your reply to me on existentialism. Reading your reply I have quite a lot of studing to do on existentialism to understand what you wrote...
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Eduard Alf
yeoman4
Dec 31, 2001 11:53 pm
Jim, Welcome to the club. There is not much that I understand either. But the fun here is the opportunity to practice your logic and English composition in...
