On Monday, August 5, 2002, at 12:05 PM, Justin Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> The classic Marx statement on it all was "The point is not to
>> understand he
>> world but to change it."
>>
> Um, the 11th Thesis on Feuerback reads, "The philosophers have only
> interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to
> change it." I don't think "nur interpretiert" can be read as "not to
> understand." The point of the Thesis is that we are also to change the
> world and not merely to understand it.
>
> jks
indeed, i've always thought this reflected a certain notion that fair degree of understanding is required to effect change . . .
j