From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 20:53:11 BST
Platt said:
Perhaps I'm hung up on Matt's "context" because to his way of thinking, we're always stuck in some context or other, and for me the context isn't history like for Matt, but people. In other words, such and such is true, but only in the context that a person says so.
Matt:
Oh, come on now. I have never, ever said that there is one context. The notion of context is the way it is so it can be stretched out to fit a lot of stuff (like "history") or not as much stuff (like "Americans"). You are conflating a lot of things I've said Platt. My point about history has always been that our patterns of value are contingent upon our place in history, that we can never be released from history's grip and leap to someplace outside of history. This is related to context insofar as the contexts we use are also trivially embedded in history. To juxtapose history with people is to make me look Hegelian when I've never made any moves towards some some metacontext like History. I think humanity's entire culture is made in the context of people saying things. As you say, "such and such is true, but only in the context that a person says so." That's closest I've ever seen you come to endorsing the idea of intersubjective agreement replacing objectivity.
Matt
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