Of gods and vampires: an introduction to psychoanalysis

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 5 13:53:08 PDT 1999


On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:06:22 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> Habermas(yuck!)? Why not Kenneth Burke?

Burke(yuck!)? Why not David Hume.

David Hume wrote in "A Treatise of Human Nature"

***** Philosophy cannot go beyond experience; and any hypothesis, that pretends to discover the ultimate original qualities of human nature, ought at first to be rejected as presumptuous and chimerical.... [and] is very sceptical, and tends to give us a notion of the imperfections and narrow limits of the human understanding.


> What we need here is a study of rhetoric, that's all.

What we need here is a study of the different ways in which we conceive an object, that's all.

ken



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