Re: Husserl - on Solaris and otherwise

Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:00:01 -0400

Piotr wrote:

>In Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita" Pilate asks a detainee:
>"Why do you talk of truth, you hobo? What do you know of it? Well -=20
>what is truth?" and gets the answer "The truth is that you right now=20
>have a headache".
>
>Truth is then, that somebody's (an-other human's - or maybe not only=20
>human's?) pain is there, for me. The clincher would be that _somebody's_
headache
> becomes _my_ headache, and not as a given, to be analyzed, but as a=20
>task, to be remedied. This is the "practical conatus", something which=
makes=20
>people run, because they cannot stand other people suffering.
>This "practical conatus", I would say, determines how an ontological game=
=20
>(a "practice" - like science, in this case) is going to be played.=20

He also wrote:

>It may be because I have been educated to proceed from axiomatized=20
>principles and to let a scrupulous description take precedent over=20
an intuitive sketch, >no matter how captivating. I do read and try to
appropriate Gadamer and=20
>Ricoeur and (not least!) L=E9vinas, but I recognize them all as=20
>phenomenologists starting from a common "axiomatic system".=20

Piotr,=20

I would have thought that the use of a "practical conatus"=20
would depend pretty heavily on intuitive sketches. Can
you say more about your own position?=20

....
>4. Now, I do not subscribe to the list in order to teach=20
>phenomenology to you. On the contrary, I want to learn CHAT/ /AT and=20
>other such things from you.=20

How about some dialogue? =20

- Judy

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Judy Diamondstone diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Graduate School of Education Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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