File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9802, message 165


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:43:55 +0100
From: "Joerg T. Gruel" <jtg-AT-owl-online.de>
Subject: Re: PLC: A Poem


Walter Okshevsky wrote:

> Why is it that so few philosophers have tried their hand at the topic of
> silence? Apart from a couple of evanescent remarks by Wittgenstein and
> Heidegger, I can't recall any other philosophical contributions. I would
> think that the Socratic elenchus would incorporate silence in some
> educative ways, but I'm not clear on exactly how. Have I missed a thread
> in these times of the mid-term test?

Didn't Platon say something about the impossibility to render philosophy by
books, in the seventh letter? Anyway, Walter, you were the only one to break
the silence that haunted the "René's Last Tape" issue ("Chicken ergo Egg",
remember?), which earns you that couple of Virtual Rheingau, just shipping
(Where has, BTW, that spirit of competitivity gone that once made this eMail
list great?). So I'd say you didn't miss anything, yet consider there's
always a silent thread running in the background, mopping up and clearing
unused memory.

Cheers,

Joerg




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