by Mommie Dark 5 Replies latest jw friends
I've noticed you are already having trouble finding enough obfuscatory language with which to dazzle the peasants. I wanted to ameliorate your situation, since you seem to think using grandiloquent words lends weight to your ideas. So here is a link for you, I hope you find it useful.
. http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm
Happy Gasbagging!
Love,
Mommie Dark
cult iconoclast and amanuensis to the genuine Zeitgeist
Mommie,
That was simply beautiful.
Duns,
Now, you might consider another philospher, Russell, not Charles Taze you idiot, but Burtrand Russell who proved everything you preach to be wrong in his Princia Mathimatica.
Somewhere in my disorderly house, I have Russell's book, The History of Western Philosophy. When I find it, I wlll read what he has to say about Hegel. My guess is that he does not kindly to his ideas.
Mommie!
Thanks! I can now use this to stump everyone at Scrabble! I can also use it to throw in a few words here and there to impress the instructors and professors at college this fall. Cool site. Where doooo you find these things?
Lindy, going off to clean out her acronyx. (I don't really have one, just thought it'd be cool to say it!) (Even the spell check doesn't get this one! LOL)
Dear mama,
Thanks for the link! I don't care what "the they" (Das Man) say. There is no one like a mommy. Dasein, if you cannot be Sosein.
Smooches,
Dan
Duns the Scot
Dunsscot,
You do seem to emmulate most of the German philosophers quite well. You've quoted both Kant and Hegel. Here are my thoughts:
Immanuel Kant: extremely wordy and difficult to understand. However, if you can manage to get past all of his blathering, his ideas can make you think. I do like the philosophical idea of "autonomy", which he espouses, which is the idea that we have free will and are not simply caught up in the chain of cause and effect.
George Hegel (rymes with bagel): even more wordy and difficult to understand than Kant. Considered by some to be the most "impenetrable" of the German philosophers. His writings strongly influenced Karl Marx. Many consider his words to be ambiguous at best and self-contradictory at worst. Hegel was an idealist: he believed that all that really exists must be mental. He was convinced that there isnt', ultimately, any independent material stuff at all. (I wonder what he would have thought of "The Matrix"?)
I love philosophy, but must admit that I haven't been able to stomach reading either of the above fellows. Thank God for the "Oxford Companion to Philosophy".
circe
(((((((((((((((MD)))))))))))))))))lolol too right,T
