tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post3592899641202776584..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: Philosophy as ConfabulationJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-51896198323703782262009-07-01T20:05:22.370-05:002009-07-01T20:05:22.370-05:00Faust: Whether you want to hear it or not, the ...Faust: Whether you want to hear it or not, the Ivan Illich incident. I was working in the textbook department of Barnes and Noble in New York City, maybe in 1969. Customers arrive, hand you a list of books, required reading, and you go look for them in the shelves. No one is polite; sometimes the customers don't even say anything to you. "Thank you" doesn't exist.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-83747224973384318872009-07-01T17:42:14.546-05:002009-07-01T17:42:14.546-05:00Well in answer to question 1. The key phrase in my...Well in answer to question 1. The key phrase in my first paragraph was "of course I jest." My bad joke was was just my attempt to say in an inept way that as much as Jean (it would seem) finds being a Christian Existentialist a little odd and requiring some further explication, I had (because I read Kierkegaard before I read Nietzche or Sarte) a reverse experience.<br /><br />But I <i>Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-83715351758263230062009-07-01T16:54:10.205-05:002009-07-01T16:54:10.205-05:00Faust: 2 questions.
1. When you ask how can...Faust: 2 questions. <br /><br />1. When you ask how can one be an existentialist and not be a Christian, where do you place Sartre and even Nietzsche, often considered to be an existentialist?<br /><br />2. When you say that you studied Illich, do you refer to Ivan Illich, a thinker who lived in Mexico and wrote very critically about schools and medicine? I met him once, without s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-1427419941968159052009-06-30T23:40:07.606-05:002009-06-30T23:40:07.606-05:00I'm curious to hear your explanation! Since he...I'm curious to hear your explanation! Since he is sometimes called the "father of existentialism" a better question might be how can you be a existentialist and NOT be a Christian. Of course I jest. I've heard Heidegger refered to as "Kierkegaard without God" so just take Heidegger add a dash of God and there you go! <br /><br />OK short short version:<br /><br />Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-64172244676620910222009-06-30T22:44:06.195-05:002009-06-30T22:44:06.195-05:00It sounds like you aren't going to give us any...It sounds like you aren't going to give us any short cuts. I need to know just a smidgen about Kierkegaard so I can understand how there can be Christian existentialists. I've made up my own explanation, but it wouldn't hurt to actually read a Christian existentialist. Come on--one book! Where are all the goodies? Isn't there a best book for Kierkegaard beginners?Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-64910703220317497972009-06-30T18:40:05.404-05:002009-06-30T18:40:05.404-05:00Well thank you both for the kind words. It means a...Well thank you both for the kind words. It means a lot. TP has been a useful venue for me to stretch my legs after a long period of silence and I have enjoyed talking (writing?) with both of you.<br /><br />In my opinion the single best book to get started on Kierkegaard with is "A Kierkegaard Anthology" edited by Robert Bretall. When people ask me what Kierkegaard book to read first Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-86934468212764487472009-06-30T17:53:30.905-05:002009-06-30T17:53:30.905-05:00Faust, You talk about philosophy like a pro...so ...Faust, You talk about philosophy like a pro...so I'd often wondered over in TP-land whether you in some way or other do it for a living. <br /><br />OK, if I have to read just one book by Kierkegaard, what should it be? I find myself talking about Christian existentialism in a class I teach, but just making it up as I go along. It might be a good idea if I actually learn something about itJean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-80714899949912691942009-06-30T16:50:12.431-05:002009-06-30T16:50:12.431-05:00Faust: I hope that you don't shake it, becau...Faust: I hope that you don't shake it, because you're very good at it. I suppose that the name "Faust" is a Kierkegaardian pseudonym of sorts.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-88330751294648861552009-06-30T15:15:59.180-05:002009-06-30T15:15:59.180-05:00Background hmm? That’s pretty broad!
I assume you...Background hmm? That’s pretty broad!<br /><br />I assume you mean my philosophical background? Or my education? <br /><br />I guess I’ll touch the high points and try to be brief.<br /><br />Married, have a 4 year old daughter, live in Seattle.<br /><br />I had a fairly general humanities undergraduate education at The Evergreen State College in Olympia WA. The two professors who influenced me Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-76248260120909494872009-06-29T20:52:57.446-05:002009-06-29T20:52:57.446-05:00A moral realist...though it's not like I can e...A moral realist...though it's not like I can explain how there can really be moral properties and objective moral truths. Once upon a time I worried about such things a whole lot, and maybe some day I will again.<br /><br />Faust, I've always been curious about your background. Might I ask?Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-28960009204441572742009-06-29T20:51:46.803-05:002009-06-29T20:51:46.803-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-47302826007815778432009-06-29T13:09:16.330-05:002009-06-29T13:09:16.330-05:00Jean,
Question: do you consider yourself a cognit...Jean,<br /><br />Question: do you consider yourself a cognitivist or a non-cognitivist (or moral realist vs moral anti-realist, or any other way to locate these general types of dividing moral theory). <br /><br />Just curious.faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-91151606690445875442009-06-28T13:37:16.204-05:002009-06-28T13:37:16.204-05:00There is a pathetic lack of scientific research ab...There is a pathetic lack of scientific research about animal's brains, no solid evidence of what every animal owner knows very well. Research these days is sponsored so much by industry that only the potentially profitable proposals get the grants. Who gets rich when it is proven that if you cry, your dog cries and when you laugh, your kind hearted pup wags his tail. So Carruthers has a free rtkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11565006451158819782noreply@blogger.com