Date: 24 Jan 97 18:18:18 EST
From: Bernhard Debatin <100762.3254-AT-compuserve.com>
Subject: General question - lost


I have been following the discussion about the "general question" with growing
fascination. I think that the way how the discussion developed is really very
interesting. Someone quoted a nice sentence from Adorno's "Minima Moralia" in
this discussion - and after Ralph's last posting I feel compelled to quote more
>from the very same aphorism, namely
"Nichts ist dem Intellektuellen, der zu leisten sich vornimmt, was frueher
Philosophie hiess, unangemessener, als in der Diskussion, und fast moechte man
sagen in der Beweisfuehrung, recht behalten zu wollen. Das Rechtbehaltenwollen
selber, bis in seine subtilste logische Reflexionsform hinein, ist Ausdruck
jenes Geistes von Selbsterhaltung, den aufzuloesen das Anliegen von Philosophie
gerade ausmacht." (MM 85)

Unfortunately, I deleted all the messages from Ralph's first comment on... Has
anybody saved the whole thread and is willing to e-mail it to me? I would be
very grateful!

Bernhard Debatin <100762,3254-AT-compuserve.com>