[B-Greek] tongues - languages
David Schultz
philosopher at creighton.edu
Thu May 26 14:34:40 EDT 2005
On May 26, 2005, at 1:05 PM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> On 5/26/05 8:20 AM, "malcolm robertson" <mjriii2003 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I would simply counsel him to exercise what Han Conzelmann called the
>> wissenschaftlicher Zweifel (scientific doubt) ...
>>
>
> ... and why should Eric Weiss be required to accept the modernist
> positivist
> perspective on the world which is the ideological context of
> "wissenschaftlicher Zweifel" ...
Because, strictly speaking, they are logically and philosophically
distinct. Be careful making this genetic fallacy. He needn't accept
it anymore than we need to accept Homeric polytheism in order to
accept his insights on human alienation.
>
> This is off topic for this forum so I will desist.
Agreed.
David Schultz
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""... the most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with
the clearest discoveries of virtue and vice in men; sometimes a
matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of
their characters and inclinations than the greatest seiges... or
bloodiest battles..."
("Alexander," in Plutarch, Parallel Lives).
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Lecturer in Philosophy - Creighton University.
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