Subject: Re: gods and men
From: Lucy Pearson (lucy@ejpearson.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 15:23:35 EST
Ed,
Please don't feel you have to take the discussion off list. One of the
things I like about this list is that you can post whenever and because it
is a communal list there is less politeness of the kind which forces people
to respond when they would rather not. I have really enjoyed sitting on in
this decision so far and, if it continues, I would like to see it, although
obviously if the participants would prefer to keep it private that is fair
enough.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Fenning <ed361@yahoo.com>
To: <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: gods and men
>
>
> --- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> > Well, yeah, I agree, Ed. The ability to "reason" is
> > innate. Part of our
> > discussion here is defining our terms. There's
> > "reasoning" as a thing that
> > we thinking animals are born able to do. Then
> > there's the "doing" of it --
> > and the "doing" of it is socially constructed. And
> > then, beyond that, is the
> > discipline of formal logic. That is also socially
> > constructed, but the
> > people who originally did the "constructing"
> > (Aristotle actually invented the
> > discipline) felt that they were making a "discovery"
> > more than "building
> > something" (creating an artifice, something
> > artificial).
> >
> > But either way we have to account for what it is and
> > where it comes from.
> > And why we think it's so darn good :)
> >
> > Jim
> ------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks Jim. And anyone else too who may reply. I've
> more to say on this but may respond off-list since I'm
> probably horning in on a discussion that may be a lot
> more advanced. What I may post could make everyone
> feel like they've got to be polite and respond (and
> don't want to do) remedially like some starving PHd
> candidate in front of Philosophy 101 section at 8:30
> AM on a Monday. I don't want that if you all are in
> the middle of something that is ongoing. And since
> I'm at work, paper pushing, yadda, yadda, yadda, I'll
> have to respond later on. Have a good weekend all.
>
> - Ed
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