Been a while since I posted anything, though I’ve had a number of things I’ve wanted to share. But, this post struck me today as a thoroughly apt observation: You Just Don’t Get It John Stuart Mill says this …the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Philosophy’
On Not Getting It
02 Jun 2010 at 14:56
by Adam
in Anthropology, Society
tags: anthropology, discourse, Philosophy, Politics, Society
Some Mildly Related Things
I gave before I read this at Shakesville, as I’ve always liked Doctors Without Borders, but it made me feel even better about my choice: DWB was operating three medical centers in Haiti, providing some of the only accessible care in Port-au-Prince for poor pregnant women, new mothers, and infant children. All three of the [...]
Quoted For Thought: Richard Rorty
More from “Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty,” available for free here (short 67-page PDF): [p. 16] RR: …the Vietnam War, Watergate, and the loss of public confidence in the presidency and the government all conspired to move the student radicals into non-majoritarian politics. In other words, the Marxist claim that the [...]
Ironism & Stuff
From the preface to a conversation with Richard Rorty (A pragmatist philosopher who argues basically that “Truth” is just the description of the world which most people agree on as the most useful at the moment, and who also is a big fan of liberty, equality and fraternity as the best moral guides we have): [...]
Finding the best path by ceasing to look
The “second summer of love” in England has had a profound impact on my life. The rave/dance scene that grew out of it bequeathed the world most of the music I found fascinating for about a decade from 1997 to, say, 2006-ish. Certainly much about me morphed and changed over that period, but electronic and [...]
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