cake

[Guest guest]

Hello Benjamin,

Is it tenable that the matter of the list should be decided by those who do not

participate. No doubt they are reluctant to question their elders as this

perhaps implies disrespect. There are cultural norms at work here. Access to

computers might be difficult, who knows. In a discussion list the

non-participant must accept the vacuous meandering as well as the gleam of gold

in the gravel. If he doesn't like it then he can jump in and add his char anna

(25 payse) worth.

 

You appear to be a little sore because your cake had knives plunged in it which

did not emerge clean. Remedy - put it back in the oven for a little more

baking. I am naughty. Idealism is a perfectly respectable position. I have

before me a book entitled 'The vindication of Absolute Idealism' by Timothy

Sprigge. He is the Professor of Metaphysics at Edinburgh University and goes to

India on convivium meets with colleagues to meet their Indian counterparts. He

speaks of two kinds of monistic metaphysics. "The second speak primarily of

there being a single subject of experience, or perhaps a pure essence of

consciousness, which looks out at, or feels the world from, the situation of

every single finite subject in each of which it is thought of as being equally

and wholly present. We might call this one-in-many or one-in-all monism".

Schopenhauer, Bradley, Schrodinger, and Vedanta he puts in this camp. This is

where he places himself approximately and he got there via thorough going

Idealism. He has a chapter called 'The Vindication of Panpsychism.

 

One thing I can claim with absolute certainty - No copy of this book has beach

sand in it.

Best Wishes, Michael.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

At 09:42 PM 6/5/2003 +0100, ombhurbhuva wrote:

>One thing I can claim with absolute certainty - No copy of this book has beach

sand in it.

>Best Wishes, Michael.

 

 

I like that!

 

--Greg