Re(2): Empathy & science

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 13 1999 - 23:06:53 PST


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>Paul Dillon wrote to Genevieve:
>
>>>> what could be so special about humans that our behavior, including
>our emotions, is not be capable of being comprehended in scientific
>concepts?

********* indeed. concepts don't understand anything, scientific or
otherwise - the dominance of indifference occludes desire.
>
>By one side, nothing.
>But by another...
>ordinary behaviour
>like feeling-showing sex hungry - for example,
>does not need special habilities to be understood or comprehended...
>
>
thanks
diane

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                                        :point where everything listens.
and i slow down, learning how to
enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.

(Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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diane celia hodges

 university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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 university of colorado, denver, school of education

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