Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:52:07 -0400
Subject: Re:  Re: PKF: Slide time


Sten writes:
>You bring up a very interesting thought, though: Are there really any
>free thinking people in the world? And you seem to answer in the negative.
>Alas, I think I have to agree with you. But because none of us is in
>a valueless or value neutral position, dialogue, arguments, become vital
>in search of a possible common ground. It is precisely because we are
>cultural products that we have to stand up and try to state our case
>- hence my compliment to Bill R.


What is meant here by "free-thinking" people?  Is it close to
"free-spirits", Nietzches' term?  Does it mean thinkers who have not been
influced by heritage? class? society? "culture"?  Or does it mean someone
who can and does look at various perspecitives realizing that in taking up
a different perspective, one becomes enmeshed in that viewpoint, that
lifestyle?    Or does free thinking refer to an archimedian point beyond
values?  Surely there is no such free thinker because thought cannot occur
without values to guide that thought.  Thinking cannot occur in a vacuum,
which means that it is influenced by the worldview in which it occurs.

Also, what is meant by the comment that"we are cultural products? and why
does that "fact" mean that we must "stand up and try to state our case"?
That iself comes from its own culture, one which can easily be rejected by
another, doesn't it?

Jeffery


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