From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2003 - 12:58:07 BST
Hi all following this one,
A remark of Rick's put me in mind of a lovely quote from my favourite
philosopher. Rick said:
> Sorry bout that. And just for the record, the reason it doesn't sound
like
> a traditional 'mediation' to me is because it would mean that 'mediation'
is
> synonymous with 'experience'.
Wittgenstein said:
"It is very *remarkable* that we should be inclined to think of
civilisation - houses, trees, cars etc - as separating man from his origins,
from what is lofty and eternal, etc. Our civilised environment, along with
its trees and plants, strikes us then as though it were cheaply wrapped in
cellophane and isolated from everything great, from God, as it were. That is
a remarkable picture that intrudes on us."
I think that we are still a little haunted by the image of the Cartesian
theatre, ie that there is an 'I' inside us, which is processing all the
various sense data that the body processes and delivers to it. There is no
mediation, perhaps that is the conclusion to be drawn. In other words, I
think that mediation probably IS experience, in most cases.
Sam
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