The great question of all philosophy , especially modern philosophy , is idealism vs materialism.
CB
>>> <kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> 10/05/99 04:53PM >>>
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