Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:25:11 -0500
Subject: Re: Philosophy


>
>This is why continental philosophy is somewhat justified in its 
>condescending attitude towards analytical philosophy.


Thank you Anthony.  Sometimes condescension is the only genuine 
response.  There are, in fact, better and worse way of approximating 
what it means to think.

>Analytical philosophy does not even realize that the very reasons by 
>which it banished things in themselves ultimately lead to the total 
>denial of all human meaning whatsoever, since for them, all meaning 
>and being is to be interpreted in terms of the mode of knowing only.

But not knowing  the "essence" of things, which is what thinking 
phenomenologically is all about..

>There is nothing by which various "webs of belief" can be compared 
>to one another, or by which various "language games" can be compared 
>to one another, leaving all our beliefs meaninglessly arbitrary at 
>bottom. At least Heidegger says that the mode of presence is 
>SUBORDINATE to the mode of readiness, so that the world had to have 
>ALREADY been discovered before we thought to deny it.


That it was!  I almost remember.  Or at least I think I do.

That's the way recollection is. What we do with one another.

Allen





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  Allen Scult					Dept. of Philosophy
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