Sorry - 'up against' - idiom for 'next to'.
E, P.
> From: "Spherik" <spherik@freemail.it>
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 00:50:37 +0100
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Subject: Re: MD Dewey/James
>
>> What's so strange about teaching Dewey up against Schopenhauer I ask,
>> (angling for lurkers)?
>
> Dewey was not teached against Schopenhauer (note: Schopenhauer it's very
> important in italian school programs because Giacomo Leopardi, an important
> italian poet, was influenced by his works) but in addition with. But for
> italian school system was an exception...
>
>> I think you're Philosophy Prof. was a
>> very smart man.
>
> I think this too!
>
>> Note to MOQ MD: Satisfaction/Quality - analogy OK?
>
> I think it's ok, but we are in the area of the ideas used as tools to
> explain something...
>
> Tonight I was reading Dewey...he damns the classic metaphisics because these
> are humans constructions against the "horror vacui", fear philosophies, too
> many simplificatory things.
> But that apparent nihilism can be converted to the research of operational
> valid ideas (the root of Pirsig's *static patterns*?!). The thought is
> considered as something in evolution (as Pirsig said about the intellectual
> patterns)....There is no doubt that Dewey may be considered one of the MOQ's
> fathers...
>
> (PS: If someone wants to subscribe to a Dewey's maling list...
> http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/janicke/Dewey.html )
>
>
>
> Excuse my poor language...it's difficult for me express philosopical
> thoughts in english! Marco, help me ;)
>
> Spherik
>
> (member of moq/italia)
>
>
>
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