tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642982.post3571969633907153602..comments2023-10-20T03:44:45.561-07:00Comments on FULL CIRCLE: The arguments we have with ourselvesDj Connellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16897528161962860572noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642982.post-53101224413677943652009-06-10T13:22:29.461-07:002009-06-10T13:22:29.461-07:00We have to keep asking questions and avoid the pit...We have to keep asking questions and avoid the pitfalls of ever thinking we have the answers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642982.post-57214927675047686072009-06-10T11:16:46.533-07:002009-06-10T11:16:46.533-07:00Dear Northwestpass,
Yes indeedy. I read Female ph...Dear Northwestpass,<br /><br />Yes indeedy. I read Female philosophers. How about Mary Daly or Paula Gunn Allen? I adore Emma Goldman. However, what I was trying to say is that at university and studying 'male existentialists' which included Kierkegaard, Sartre,and Camus, (the first and the last were most interesting) my professor was more a Sartre person who saw women as slime. None of them had any idea of what life was like for the female half of the species and none gave a flying leap that it just might not be in relation to them.<br />I would have to refresh about Iris Murdoch and Hanna Arendt, so I dare not comment about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642982.post-91920759976087375972009-06-09T07:26:00.214-07:002009-06-09T07:26:00.214-07:00Good morning Rhonda,
To look at the first premise...Good morning Rhonda,<br /><br />To look at the first premise of any philosophical argument is a standard and essential part of logic itself. It's like the work of a forensic scientist, following the evidence back to the beginning. The observation that the first premises of every argument you studied at uni is a very interesting and I think astute observation. Philosophy has been a male dominated discipline for centuries. Philosophy progresses when the unexamined presuppositions are brought to light, just as your comment here has done. Since you followed what appears to be a perfectly sound logical process to make that observation, I wonder if your objection is not with logic as such, but with its reduction to masculine narratives. I wonder if you would think differently about it if you looked at female philosophers. Ever read Iris Murdoch, for instance? Or Hanna Arendt?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7642982.post-21330447254338074432009-06-08T15:12:30.281-07:002009-06-08T15:12:30.281-07:00Ah, but what he does not say is that every philoso...Ah, but what he does not say is that every philosophical position is based on a first premise and then the logic proceeds from there. The most important thing is what is that first premise and what is its foundation? I realized this when I took existentialism at university and every very first premise was based on a male experience of life and it did not reflect anything I had experienced. I was told by my professor that he was raising me to his level. Really? I asked him just what level that was? It is the same old question, who decides what is false and what is true? I am not anti-intellectual in any way. However, I now look for the first premise before I bother to follow the logic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com