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>> Condemnation Without Absolutes
>> BY STANLEY FISH
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>> CHICAGO -- During the interval between the terrorist attacks and the
>> United States response, a reporter called to ask me if the events of
>> Sept. 11 meant the end of postmodernist relativism. It seemed bizarre
>> that events so serious would be linked causally with a rarefied form
>> of academic talk.
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> What a bizarre understanding of the purpose of philosophy.
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i dont understand your response. whose understanding of the purpose of philosophy do you can call bizarre? fish's? what do *you* think is the purpose of philosophy?
--ravi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.