>From: ravi <gadfly at home.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Fish weighs in
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:49:09 -0400
>
>Mina Kumar wrote:
>
>>
>>>Condemnation Without Absolutes
>>>BY STANLEY FISH
>>>
>>>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.
>>
>>What a bizarre understanding of the purpose of philosophy.
>>
>
>
>i dont understand your response. whose understanding of the purpose of
>philosophy do you can call bizarre? fish's?
I think it's bizarre that he thinks it bizarre that serious events should be related to philosophical speculation.
what do *you* think is
>the
>purpose of philosophy?
Too upset over other things to recall the apt quote from Plato, but uh, you know, to like think aobut the right way to live in the world.
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