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- From: triley@weber.ucsd.edu (Tristan Riley)
- Newsgroups: alt.postmodern
- Subject: Re: pms (was re: pm)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 07:14:10 GMT
- Organization: University of California, San Diego
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- > Zeleny, once again, demonstrates that the Greek discovery of the mind
- >need not be permanent. It is quite possible to lose one's mind and default, as
- >Ayn Rand noted, "[to] a miasma of floating abstractions unrelated to
- >concretes....Reason [to those who won't reason] is a means of defeating their
- >victims, a menial servant charged with the task of rationalizing the
- >metaphysical validity and power of their whims [ontological commitments,
- >assumptions]....When men do not choose to reach the conceptual level, their
- >consciousness has no recourse [like a computer default] but to its automatic,
- >perceptual, semi-animal functions." Zeleny symbolizes his semi-animal functions
- >and calls it philosophy.
- >================================================================================
- > "In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit
- >you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and cer-
- >tainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe."
- > AYN RAND
- >================================================================================
- >Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
- >================================================================================
-
- oh, please quote some more logical positivistic bullshit from a
- philosophical nobody and call that philosophy. maybe there's an
- alt.simplistic.answers.to.all.epistemological.issues you can post to
- in future--i know there's a nifty little objectivist/randite/take
- -phallus-in-hand-and-emit-reason group who'd be thrilled to discuss
- 'anthem' with you til you're blue in the face.
-