Sunday, February 16, 2020

Pacific temperate rainforests: Definition of #Philosophy in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy? search: 'Meaning of Life' https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/ by Thaddeus Metz (with African philosophy focus 'Definitions' articles, - 'external standpoint' for #AskingQuestions ? * * * Finnish Anselm Hollo (1934-2013" "Lost Original" poem #BeatPoets * 1960s * Del Close and John Brent - How To Speak Hip - A2 - Basic Hip Appreciating this language of 'digging' something :) * * * Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's article on Jürgen Habermas' thinking ... and Habermas' s philosophical anthropological thinking in article esp.



Definition of #Philosophy in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy? search: 'Meaning of Life' https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/ by Thaddeus Metz (with African philosophy focus https://www.uj.ac.za/contact/Pages/Prof-Thaddeus-Metz.aspx) & 'Definitions' articles. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/definitions/ 'external standpoint' for #AskingQuestions ?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229126727089049601?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1229145074191065088?s=20


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Definition of #Philosophy in #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy? search: 'Meaning of Life' https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/ by Thaddeus Metz (with African philosophy focus https://www.uj.ac.za/contact/Pages/Prof-Thaddeus-Metz.aspx) & 'Definitions' arts. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/definitions/ 'external standpoint' for #AskingQuestions ?


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1229128465330270208?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1229144987129901056?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229145586508500998?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1229147161209606145?s=20



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The Meaning of Life (1983) ... somehow embedded ...

https://youtu.be/OpdNmkZ1wMg


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“Well, it's nothing very special. Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”

https://www.moviequotes.com/s-movie/monty-pythons-the-meaning-of-life/



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Definition of #Philosophy in #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy? search: '#MeaningOfLife' https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/life-meaning/ by Thaddeus Metz (w #MontyPython @JohnCleese https://www.nrf.ac.za/content/professor-thaddeus-metz) & 'Definitions' articles: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/definitions/  #AskingQuestions with HUMOR @WorldUnivAndSch?


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229143887207251968?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1229144902971187201?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1229147246639247360?s=20



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#MontyPythons' #MeaningOfLife #philosophy “Well, it's nothing very special. Try & be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now & then, get some walking in, & try and live together in peace & harmony with people of all creeds & nations.” https://youtu.be/OpdNmkZ1wMg ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229143967276515330?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1229144797065048064?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1229147323541815296?s=20






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Lost Original
Anselm Hollo - 1934-2013


Mr. K said   in times of great crudity
it is necessary   to be subtle
so please wrap around me
with awkward grace
I may have suffered some Rilke Damage
or do I just have a little trouble
with fantasy tripwires
while engrossed in the sky's lexicon
& hills like purple pachyderms
"there's been a great upsurgence"
said the announcer   but I didn't catch
what of   & what of where
does it come from where does it go
still asking   on down the road


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Anselm Hollo - 1934-2013
1-
Mr. K said   in times of great crudity
it is necessary   to be subtle
so please wrap around me
with awkward grace
I may have suffered some Rilke Damage
or do I just have a little trouble
with fantasy tripwires...
https://poets.org/poem/lost-original…~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229179829414531072?s=20


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Lost Original
Anselm Hollo - 1934-2013
2-
while engrossed in the sky's lexicon
& hills like purple pachyderms
"there's been a great upsurgence"
said the announcer   but I didn't catch
what of   & what of where
does it come from where does it go
still asking   on down the road

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229179816517099520?s=20


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Anselm Hollo - 1934-2013 #BeatPoets
-http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/hollo/hollo_pub.html
-http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/hollo/
-https://woodlandpattern.org/archives/poems/?poem=159
-https://poets.org/poem/lost-original
-https://poets.org/poems/anselm-hollo
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_Hollo
-https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anselm-hollo
Lost Original 1 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229179829414531072?s=20
and 2 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229179816517099520?s=20 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229182463991148545?s=20




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Del Close and John Brent - How To Speak Hip - A2 - Basic Hip Appreciating this language of 'digging' something :) @SpeakkVisually - https://youtu.be/icfrM19vx90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Speak_Hip #Hipsters #Hippies #BeatGeneration #BeatPoets #Beats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_Close https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brent_(comedian) ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1229236658861555712?s=20



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https://twitter.com/SpeakkVisually/status/1227601852004524032?s=20



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How to Speak Hip - series of Youtubes from 1959 album
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrUipz990lewRYAdhsPxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByNWU4cGh1BGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=how+to+speak+hip+John+Brent+and+Del+Close&fr=yhs-Lkry-SF01&hspart=Lkry&hsimp=yhs-SF01#id=1&vid=cba7d1a349eae0e0f16f717a947885f7&action=view



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JOHN BRENT'S BIBLE LAND 1961 GREENWICH VILLAGE STORY

https://youtu.be/0Rx7rxHq11c





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Hi Ma,

You might find interesting parts of this Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's article on Habermas' thinking ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/

Love, Scott



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Scott MacLeod
Fri, Feb 14, 3:20 PM (2 days ago)
to me, Janie

Hi Ma,

Am sympathetic with Habermas's philosophical anthropological thinking in article esp.

L ove, Scott



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So true!

Appreciating ... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/habermas/ ... and esp. ... 

"Habermas's interest in the political subsequently led him to a series of philosophical studies and critical-social analyses that eventually appeared in English in his Toward a Rational Society (1970) and Theory and Practice (1973b). Whereas the latter consists primarily of reflections on the history of philosophy, the former represents an attempt to apply his emerging theory of rationality to the critical analysis of contemporary society, in particular the student protest movement and its institutional target, the authoritarian and technocratic structures that held sway in higher education and politics.
Habermas's critical reflection takes a nuanced approach to both sides of the social unrest that characterized the late sixties. Although sympathetic with students' demand for more democratic participation and hopeful that their activism harbored a potential for positive social transformation, he also did not hesitate to criticize its militant aspects, which he labeled self-delusory and “pernicious” (1970, 48). In his critique of technocracy—governance by scientific experts and bureaucracy—he relied on a philosophical framework that anticipates categories in his later thought, minus the philosophy of language he would work out in the 1970s. Specifically, Habermas sharply distinguished between two modes of action, “work” and “interaction,” which correspond to enduring interests of the human species (ibid., chap. 6). The former includes modes of action based on the rational choice of efficient means, that is, forms of instrumental and strategic action, whereas the latter refers to forms of “communicative action” in which actors coordinate their behaviors on the basis of “consensual norms” (ibid., 91–92). Habermas's distinction in effect appropriates the classical Aristotelian contrast between techne and praxis for critical social theory (1973b, chap. 1). The result is a distinctively Habermasian critique of science and technology as ideology: by reducing practical questions about the good life to technical problems for experts, contemporary elites eliminate the need for public, democratic discussion of values, thereby depoliticizing the population (1970, chap. 6). The legitimate human interest in technical control of nature thus functions as an ideology—a screen that masks the value-laden character of government decision making in the service of the capitalist status quo. Unlike Herbert Marcuse, who regarded that interest as specific to capitalist society, Habermas affirmed the technical control of nature as a genuinely universal species-interest; pace Horkheimer and Adorno in their Dialectic of Enlightenment, the technical interest did not necessitate social domination.
Habermas defended this philosophical anthropology most fully in his Knowledge and Human Interests (1971b; German ed., 1968b), the work that represents his first attempt to provide a systematic framework for an interdisciplinary critical social theory. As Habermas conceived his task, he had to establish critical social theory as a respectable, distinct form of knowledge, in large measure through a methodological critique of the then-dominant positivist philosophy of science and historicist hermeneutics. He thus develops a theory of “knowledge-constitutive interests” that are tied both to “the natural history of the human species” and to “the imperatives of the socio-cultural form of life,” but are not reducible to them (ibid., 168). "
His focus on student movements in the 1960s is fascinating, philosophically, and his books are remarkable resources about this too! - https://twitter.com/jurgenoutfitter - :) 

Love, Scott



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

2:23 PM (5 hours ago)
to Scott, Janie
Ma,

I only found one reference to Manuel Castells in the Stanford Encyclopedia to Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/ - and as a Castellian, and with regard to Globalization, about which I've also written academically: 

"For example, there is substantial empirical evidence that cross-border flows and exchanges (of goods, people, information, etc.), as well as the emergence of directly transnational forms of production by means of which a single commodity is manufactured simultaneously in distant corners of the globe, are gaining in prominence (Castells 1996)."

Habermas is also cited in these article: 

"Jürgen Habermas, a prominent cosmopolitan-minded theorist, has tried to formulate a defense of the European Union that conceives of it as a key steppingstone towards supranational democracy. If the EU is to help succeed in salvaging the principle of popular sovereignty in a world where the decay of nation state-based democracy makes democracy vulnerable, the EU will need to strengthen its elected representative organs and better guarantee the civil, political, and social and economic rights of all Europeans (Habermas 2001, 58–113; 2009). Representing a novel form of postnational constitutionalism, it potentially offers some broader lessons for those hoping to save democratic constitutionalism under novel global conditions. Despite dire threats to the EU posed by nationalist and populist movements, Habermas and other cosmopolitan-minded intellectuals believe that it can be effectively reformed and preserved (Habermas 2012).

In opposition to Held, Habermas, and other cosmopolitans, skeptics underscore the purportedly utopian character of such proposals, arguing that democratic politics presupposes deep feelings of trust, commitment, and belonging that remain uncommon at the postnational and global levels."

This SEP article is written by Bill Scheuerman who taught at Pitt for some years (https://polisci.indiana.edu/documents/profiles/scheuerman1.pdf and https://intlstudies.indiana.edu/people/faculty/scheuerman-william.html) - and who's most recent book is titled "Civil Disobedience" (sounds like he could be a Quaker too!). Do you happen to know him? 

Love, Scott
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