From: "Jon Rubin" <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: To destratify or not to destratify Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:49:50 PST On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Jon Rubin wrote: "Michael - are you after Unleesh to come up with criteria for deciding before-hand whether some action he is about to undertake will stratify or restratify, or assessing some action after he has done it to decide whether it succesfully de/re stratified? "Both. Either. Anything approaching a straight answer." But a straight answer to the former question surely would run along the lines of: "I can't come up with criteria either infallible, or even just very good, for determining what results actions that I may hope are destratifying because in order to destratify it is necessary to experiment - and the nature of experiments precludes my knowing the result before-hand (otherwise it wouldn't be an experiment)." and a straight answer to the second would simply be history, assuming that whatever destratifying actions he may have undertaken were not immediately restratified - in which case it would be futile history. It is hard, when writing, not to translate a notion of becoming into a succesion of (small "e") events. You mentioned you're own interest in the categorical imperative, I think? Have you read Cutrofello's _Discipline and Critique_ ? which has the best attempt to rescue Kant from his own morality mire. Jon. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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