Andrea,
Let's not be accepting arguments from authority too often now - individuals
understand things, not academic institutions. (A point Simone Weil makes as
well as Pirsig and better than I [from 'Le Pesanter et La Grace': "A group
of human beings cannot even add two and two. Working out a sum takes place
in a mind temporarily oblivious of any other minds."]).
Elephant
p.s. Some of the most highly educated people in the world are *wrong*.
It's been known to happen.....
Yes we should pay attention to those in-the-know. But one of the things we
don't necessarily know is who those people are. It's really a question of
attitude: someone who has respect for the truth is going to pay attention
when someone tells them something - but for their own good they ought to be
paying attention *whoever* tells them that. Out of the mouths of babes and
fools....
FOOL:
Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.
LEAR:
Do.
FOOL:
Mark it, nuncle-
Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than though trowest, [trowest, from troth, - a promise?]
Set less than thou throwest,
Leave thy drink and thy whore,
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
KENT:
This is nothing, fool.
FOOL:
Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer, you gave me nothing for't.
Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?
> From: Andrea Sosio <andrea.sosio@italtel.it>
> Organization: Italtel S.p.A.
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:05:58 +0100
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Subject: Re: MD General criticism of MOQ [2nd attempt]
>
> I am ready to understand that those who like RMP this much do so because they
> haven't read or haven't understood enough "real" philosophy, which happens to
> be a position that surfaces now and then in this list. In this respect, I find
> it comforting that some subscribers are well-educated philosophers. :)
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