tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078757.post114268242216552214..comments2023-11-02T08:39:17.310-07:00Comments on Sentiments of Rationality: Logophobia, Alethophobia,TheophobiaDom Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04446684066512811439noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078757.post-1143397455464959032006-03-26T10:24:00.000-08:002006-03-26T10:24:00.000-08:00I was telling Josh the other day that some America...I was telling Josh the other day that some American Politics Professor was jerking around a student of his and mine, who is a very good student because she said she was having trouble "grasping the difference between theoretical insight and reality." I sat there lisening to this insane simplification of a couple of millenia of epistemology and I wanted to oh so badly jump in with a discourse on the "ontic and the ontological", but alas I refrained and deferred to my elders (ugh). <BR/> I think this relates to the comments above because I think Josh's complaint is aobut our emphasis of the "thnigliness of things" as opposed to the "substance of being". That's something from reading Heidegger that has just completely resonated in me from the very first time I read it.Steven Maloneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11283991541416391684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20078757.post-1143077593182680492006-03-22T17:33:00.000-08:002006-03-22T17:33:00.000-08:00Hehe: alethophobia, or fear of not forgetting. As ...Hehe: alethophobia, or fear of not forgetting. As for this other thing, truth, what I and other post-Heideggerians find so disconcerting about the word is that most of the epistemologists discuss it under the auspices of medium-sized dry goods. We have endless argument about tables, trees, and coffee cups, and then pretend like our conclusions should have implications for categories like humanity and citizenship, or the Good and the Just.anotherpanaceahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08170804573665745672noreply@blogger.com