From: Andrew Phelps <phelps@cwnet.com>
To: RadPsyNet-Members@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun Dec 28 14:12 -0800
Subject: Re: [RadPsyNet-Members] Re: Kant and morality
Hi
Lmn's extensive comments are involved but make basic sense to me.
The one point I'd add is that Nietzsche is noted for having taken up on the
rhetoric of invention which is what Ramus and then Descartes dismissed, which was a key to Renaissance humanism. Grassi, a student of Heidegger, recognized that, and brought us back to the perspective(s) of the Italian Renaissance, and to Vico's project of building upon that/those.I didn't figure all that out on my own, rather it was years and years in the Cognitive Science seminar at U.C. Berkeley; also it was John Shotter in particular whose writing articulated to me much of what I said.
And I do remember the time Erving Goffman was invited by Cognitive Science to present, under the aegis of the Social Welfare Dept. He was modest and straightforward and spoke to the specifics of how each faculty person "behaved," and in their terms.
Andrew
On Sun Dec 28 19:24 GMT, Lmn sent:
Sadly, I cannot lay claim to the words and pockets analogy-it comes from Nietzsche (I think it was Human all too Human). Nietzsche's university specialism was philology (the historical study of words).