From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 14:34:19 GMT
Matt S:
>Specifically, the
> idea of the intellectual level seems to reintroduce
> the problematic notions of the self, of human
> rationality, of ideas, that fly in the face od the
> concerns about 'humanism' in philosophy that Foucault
> has warned us of, for example.
Perhaps you could explain to us why self and human rationality are
"problematic notions."
> Thus, is not
> the introduction of an 'intellectual level' a
> dangerous move, tempting people into seeing people as
> 'beings', with 'ideas', not purely patterns?
What's the danger in seeing people as beings with ideas?
> The reason why the MoQ appealed to me in the first
> place is that it first seemed to remove problematic
> concepts such as the self and the truth and so on,
> from reality, and re-phrase it purely in terms of
> structure.
"Self"and "truth" are "problematic concepts?" How so? What other
concepts are problematic as indicated by your phrase "and so on?"
Platt
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