tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post2698970099926076506..comments2023-10-17T07:56:03.291-07:00Comments on WhooshUp: The Broken CircleKarl Tysonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966874640497047835noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post-68849907427215089202009-03-25T14:07:00.000-07:002009-03-25T14:07:00.000-07:00There are obviously lots of topics available. Sin...There are obviously lots of topics available. Since we last talked I have been trying to read Lyotard, Deleuze, Wittgenstein, and Saussure. They are all important to the Heidegger trail.<BR/><BR/>What we must face is our own inadequacy to continue. We all know that we desperately needed new blood all last year - especially after our New York and French friends stepped out. We need people like us and not like us, people we can help and people who can help us. If we can't figure out how to get such thinking people to join in, our discussions will inevitably continue to be circular, always returning to the same questions, and positing the same answers. Or, how am I wrong?<BR/><BR/>I value the energy of your suggestions, I'm glad you still feel like continuing, and I will try to show up and keep germane to whatever we have on the table to discuss.Karl Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14966874640497047835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post-83937737941719981942009-03-25T05:20:00.000-07:002009-03-25T05:20:00.000-07:00I’ve listened to a few of the Drabinski lectures, ...I’ve listened to a few of the Drabinski lectures, and a couple of the M-P. I’m not sure I would necessarily want to commit to the whole series (although I might get sucked-in). Perhaps we could give it a go, maybe from the beginning, or maybe pick and choose? You guys I believe have already given them a listen, perhaps you could suggest a “best of”.<BR/><BR/>The 2009 Templeton Prize was recently awarded to the Frenchman d’Espagnat, here is a link in yesterdays BBC website: <BR/>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7955846.stm<BR/>I am intrigued by the use of the word “Being” here, and how or if Heidegger would weigh in. Firstly, he would discuss the “little b” being - the leap to a “big deal” Being seems like quite a stretch (although it may be rooted in the interpretation of the press - not the author). D”Espagnat talks about a “Veiled Reality”, which “evokes something like a coemergence of thought and phenomenal reality out of a Being that is conceptually prior to both.” Hmmm. Smells a bit like aletheia fumes wafting around a quantum mechanical kitchen to me, although I will need to look closer at the cookbooks!<BR/><BR/>I bring up this example to suggest we might also seek out specific problems and topics for the consideration of the group. Some may lead to a dead end, others out to a clearing. The ancient proverb runs ” He who learns but does not think is lost.” Confucius adds “He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”foundrysmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15458387982965437178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post-2830203535174033692009-03-24T20:51:00.000-07:002009-03-24T20:51:00.000-07:00Dean,The "Between Husserl and Heidegger" course gi...Dean,<BR/><BR/>The "Between Husserl and Heidegger" course given by John Drabinski is excellent. I would also be interested in discussing the course Dreyfus gave on Merleau-Ponty. Let me know what you think.<BR/><BR/>BradBHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09912004240648685828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3201110496877153792.post-70457053987275307832009-03-24T11:34:00.000-07:002009-03-24T11:34:00.000-07:00I think things went pretty well overall - at least...I think things went pretty well overall - at least for those who stuck it out - It seems hard to believe that after Division II last Spring we continued through the Summer with our own course of independent study on “Later Heidegger”! The momentum never picked up in the Fall of 08 with Philosophy 6, which was unfortunate, as I think that would have been a good introductory course in the Second Life realm.<BR/><BR/>I saw in the recent Berkeley Philosophy Newsletter the following item:<BR/><BR/>"His (Dreyfus) latest<BR/>adventure in cyberspace was to set up and lead a virtual discussion<BR/>section in Second Life, to which an eager group of podcast listeners<BR/>from all over the world showed up. Although Bert himself has been<BR/>too busy with classes in the real world to attend the virtual discussion regularly, he understands that a core online group continues to meet<BR/>on a weekly basis."<BR/><BR/>It would seem we did make a small footnote by being-in this enterprise - though where we go from here is anybody’s guess. It seems we need a Dreyfus or equivalent to generate podcast fodder to keep the group interested and asking questions. The Holderlin lectures of Fall 08 never slipped out of the jaws of Berkeley, which would have been the obvious follow on at Ed Tech Island. <BR/><BR/>Oddly enough, I find myself reviewing the B&T podcasts from time to time. They are always there to go back to. I either misunderstood or just didn’t get it the first time through, so I am getting more benefit out of them now. Though that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t struggled through them last year in Second Life! I can’t believe that we would ever run out of Heidegger stuff to talk about, the challenge seems to be to get everyone on the same page with a discussion topic, so a meaningful conversation may be had at some appointed time in SL. I am also open to suggestions.foundrysmithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15458387982965437178noreply@blogger.com