From: "Lita Coucher" <lita_coucher-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 08:22:05 -0500



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From: hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
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Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?


> Ken,
>
> I think my quote was from Gellner.
>
> The Hegel quote doesn't mention emotion.
>
> but compare T.S. Eliot:
>
> "What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place."
>
> It doesn't mention rationality.
>
> More recent statements point to the role of perception, as Feyerabend:
>
>  "...neither the object nor the perception can exist by itself; act,
object
> and perception form an indivisible block".
>
>
All Hail Post-Modernism and construction/deconstruction...

 Is it rational to regard objects, subjects, perceptions as actual and real,
> when know that on-screen or off-screen they are often convoluted with
> illusions which  permeate our mainstream sensibilities.
>
> emotionally,
> hugh
>
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> From: <kenneth.mackendrick-AT-utoronto.ca>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 5:08 PM
> Subject: Re: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
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> >
> > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001 16:56:07 -0500 hugh bone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Occasionally I remember that we : "Rationalize our emotions and
> emotionalize
> > our reasons".
> >
> > I've heard that before: "The actual is rational, and the rational is
> actual"
> > (Hegel, Preface, Philosophy of Right)
> >
> > totalisticality,
> > ken
> >
> >
> >
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