Fish weighs in

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Mon Oct 15 23:21:34 PDT 2001



>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>>
>>>New York Times - October 15, 2001
>>>
>>>Condemnation Without Absolutes
>>>BY STANLEY FISH
>>>
>>>... But if by relativism one means the practice of putting yourself in
>>>your adversary's shoes, not in order to wear them as your own but in
>>>order to have some understanding (far short of approval) of why
>>>someone else might want to wear them, then relativism will not and
>>>should not end, because it is simply another name for serious thought.
>>
>>Beautifully put.
>
>Carl, have you gone postmodern on us? Things were confusing enough already!
>
>Doug

Hmm, I look at Fish's comment there and what I see is eminent good common sense lucidly put. If that be postmodernism I'd say pomo seems to be gravitating toward my POV.

Carl

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