From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 23:49:01 BST
Hi David,
David said:
Interesting how philosophy is such a marginal subject these days, I feel this is because of the subject fragmentation and lack of inter-disciplinary conversation/dialogue in universities and also the professionalisation of philosophy.
Matt:
Yes, completely agree.
David said:
Matt -you're the odd one, a non-reductionist physicalist! I get this up to a point. But what sort of cosmological story do you string together with respect to the meaning of life? What is Matt's conception of the good/right life? I would like a paper on that.
Matt:
Well, I'm kinda' writing it, and I already promised Andy a copy. Deal is, I think any sort of cosmological story a person tells with respect to the meaning of life is going to be deeply personal. In essence, it will be a poem. After we assimilate the public/private practical divide, our private lives are devoted to whatever we want, and whatever we are left with when we die is the poem of our lives. Some people will try and link their story up with others, like through various religions or philosophies or books. Others will be so idiosyncratic that no one will be able to understand what they do on the weekends. My own personal conception is a bit wider than unintelligible, it does have to do with other people. And literature.
Matt
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