Dear Ontos Members, I would like to wish you all a happy and fruitful New Year. Ontos has enjoyed a long silence. We are all busy people and perhaps the ...
Joseph Milne
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Jan 4, 1999 5:31 am
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A Happy New Year to All Well Ontos certainly has been quiet for a while. I had a few disasters like a hard-drive crash and a visit from my mother (well,...
Brian Edwards
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Jan 12, 1999 11:38 pm
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... Well Brian, I am not sure if I can respnd to your questions very adequately. This is a very interesting post you have sent and it is good to see two of the...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Jan 13, 1999 5:29 am
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Thank you for a marvelous exposition of the cave Joseph. In regards to this ... must ... never ... relation ... all ... Heidegger is not putting reason,...
Brian Edwards
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Jan 13, 1999 12:41 pm
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Dear Brian & Joseph, I have enjoyed your posts over the recent days of the worst winter here in Wisconsin. Warmth for the negative temperatures is emitted...
Todd Mei
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Jan 14, 1999 4:27 pm
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... Todd: *Truth* stated in the negative may serve a number of purposes from Plato to Heidegger. For Plato the *idea* becomes master over *Aletheia* insofar as...
Bernx@...
Jan 15, 1999 10:37 pm
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Dear Ontosians! Our discussions on this new list have been rather hard to persue for most of us, I feel. Trying to get to the bottom of Heidegger is hard...
Joseph Milne
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Feb 15, 1999 7:38 pm
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1st International Philosophy, Science & Theology Festival 23 - 27 June 1999 Grafton, New South Wales, Australia CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPANTS Festival...
Joseph Milne
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Feb 16, 1999 3:37 am
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Thanks Joseph, I embrace my change of status from an Ontosopher to an Ontosion. Only an Ontosopher could "get to the bottom of Heidegger" and I crumpled at...
Brian Edwards
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Feb 17, 1999 2:28 pm
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... Dear Brian, It seems Ontosophy proved too hard for us all so we have translated ourselves to Ontosians! ... Interesting observations. Of course the...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Feb 19, 1999 3:54 am
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Dear Ontos Members: The question of art, or the philosophy of art, touches such a nerve in me that I would rather lay my books down to wield an ax of some sort...
Todd Mei
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Feb 19, 1999 4:56 am
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I have just joined The List, and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Rick Parrish, and I am a graduate student in the Department of Political Science of...
Rick Parrish
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Feb 19, 1999 7:36 am
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Joseph, So, this is your idea of making things easier is it? These are subjects very dear to my heart, and you are making me consider them so closely that I...
Andy Green
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Feb 19, 1999 9:20 am
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I think I may have a bit of a problem. You see, some of the cleverest people I have come across (in a longish life) have been devotees of Tolkien and/or...
Andy Green
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Feb 19, 1999 9:20 am
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... Rick Parrish, and I am a graduate student in the Department of Political Science of the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. Officially, my main field of...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Feb 19, 1999 3:34 pm
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... And so do I Andy! But I suppose that culture has always been the natural home of the few. No apologies if that sounds eletist. ... An interesting...
Joseph Milne
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Feb 19, 1999 3:34 pm
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... This is a very subtle distinction you have drawn. I have to confess I delight in Tolkien, yet would not place his work on the plane of Shakespeare. But...
Joseph Milne
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Feb 19, 1999 3:34 pm
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... that I ... clear the ... But ... Todd, yes, I agree with you here. This is the territory of the problem. Strangely enough, it is a territory that...
Joseph Milne
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Feb 19, 1999 3:34 pm
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... To state a couple of Strauss's conclusions: 1) Descartes is not a substance dualist 2) Descartes is an athiest The theory is that many philosophers of...
rdparrish@...
Feb 19, 1999 9:26 pm
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... Well, I am not sure what to make of this by itself. I had given more credit to Descartes thinking than this seems to imply - even though I fundamentally ...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Feb 20, 1999 12:13 pm
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If Descartes is merely laughing at people who desire to become incorruptable beings, this is not really any kind of "philosophical" position. From what you...
Rick Parrish
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Feb 20, 1999 6:48 pm
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... Rick; I suspect this is also a major ingredient for great art: where the artist or poet must lapse symbolically ambiguous to save his skin and not offend...
Bernx@...
Feb 20, 1999 9:37 pm
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... This raises an interesting question about narrative and culture; for it seems that the categories of real "non-reality" narrative/fiction and unreal ...
Todd Mei
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Feb 21, 1999 6:06 pm
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Why is it, Bernard, that I feel like an innocent babe whenever you write?!! Do I simply fail to see how devious the world really is? In my simpleness, I am not...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Feb 23, 1999 4:22 am
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... Strangely enough, Todd, the most "real" narrative these days is the popular Soap Operas. In an odd way their very "realism" is what makes them unreal. It...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Feb 23, 1999 4:22 am
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... Dear Joseph, Yes, unfortunately this is so, and I am quite sure there is a connection between the passivity inherent in *watching* television programs and...
Todd Mei
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Feb 25, 1999 8:43 am
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... Todd: I can easily relate what you call "narrative" to African American HIP-HOP which, like Rap, is neither music or poetry but an intense statement of...
Bernx@...
Feb 26, 1999 9:55 pm
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... Dear Bernard, Yes, it is strange, and it is difficult to tell if each one of our generation's youth movements invovled some kind of dissembling of sorts....
Todd Mei
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Feb 27, 1999 5:30 am
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... At the level of the youth and their music and distractions, they have an ... Eubonics ... Well, Todd, i wonder to what degree the youth today really have a...
Joseph Milne
alfar@...
Mar 2, 1999 3:55 am
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~ONTOS UPDATE~ Ontos is still a new list and finding its way. As yet we have very few members but all thoughtful people, though also all male! But we are...
