From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 09 06:09:44 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EZqdz-00046m-Ru for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:43 -0800 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EZqdx-00046e-V5 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:43 -0800 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s15so189169wxc for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=EDEUEmh2PouwQpEMCJziA7rUb2g1usr23iRi0oZGFhpUo6Z3mTRf+5JkWrnL3X5sQQOTQ/TraK3Su/qgSEspZ00J1u8oyatNg0mHb8kp0wFGc8aUDXZ9IiBMMDdzmiKdDOieBbxNh2bNb911ijFJyrnCNOmHcGvNRbxrJCTXPGo= Received: by 10.65.15.11 with SMTP id s11mr814946qbi; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.72.15 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 06:09:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2d3df92a0511090609q4addf569ocba5b1ecfb78fb89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:09:41 +0100 From: HeliodoR To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: definition of 'philosophy' In-Reply-To: <1b8.1faeb7ad.309f7069@wmconnect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_15517_3224098.1131545381222" References: <1b8.1faeb7ad.309f7069@wmconnect.com> X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) X-archive-position: 2519 X-Approved-By: exitconsole@gmail.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: exitconsole@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners ------=_Part_15517_3224098.1131545381222 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > > A philosophy is a set of principles which provides a consistent and > comprehensive frame of reference from which to judge man and his > environment. I suppose the beginning of the definition is perfect but the end ("...to judge man and his environment") might turn out misleading. Defining a concept You must be careful about not letting it be too specific so it will very unfortunately exclude some elements that should be considered 'philosophies'. IMHO the above definition is too strict, and a philosophy that does not deal with Humanity at all might exist. Like... um... think Descartes's system, how he described the world - in which Man had really no concrete rule, it was not necessary to live and be. And the view of Descartes is said to be a philosophy. So I think the definition should be corrected somehow to apply to all the philosphies one can think of (which is not easy, but who said it was?). mi'e xiLI,odor. ------=_Part_15517_3224098.1131545381222 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline
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it will very unfortunately exclude some elements that should be
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a philosophy that does not deal with Humanity at all might exist.
Like... um... think Descartes's system, how he described the world -
in which Man had really no concrete rule, it was not necessary to live=
and be. And the view of Descartes is said to be a philosophy.
So I think the definition should be corrected somehow to apply to all<= /div>
the philosphies one can think of (which is not easy, but who said it
was?).
 
mi'e xiLI,odor.
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