4.1019 Misc. Responses (3/51)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 12 Feb 91 16:41:31 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1019. Tuesday, 12 Feb 1991.
(1) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 22:12 PST (9 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.1006 The Languages of Humanist
(2) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 10:59 PST (15 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0983 War and the Philosophy Teacher
(3) Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 11:10 PST (27 lines)
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0981 Queries: Slavic OCR; Word/WP Mac/dos xfer;...
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 22:12 PST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.1006 The Languages of Humanist (5/134)
LET US CALL THE WHOLE SHEBANG THE MACARONISTS, NOT HUMANISTS. IT IS
FUN, ANYWAY , AND I AM NOT SCOFFING AT ALL. I JUST THOUGHT SOME WOULD
SMILE TO THINK OF OUR SELVES AS MACARONISTS, DOING MACARONICS, DA VERO!
SI, CARISSIMI! KESSLER
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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 10:59 PST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0983 War and the Philosophy Teacher (1/90)
If only philosophy, or analytical ethics, as it is proposed here, would
addres itself to hard questions: Homo sapiens, per se, culture(s) per
se, with their i rreducible assymmetries, material struggles for power,
and what it is, all 19th century topics that have not been resolved, the
nature of East/West views of p hilosophy and history, etc., it would be
more useful to propose topics. War is a topic that von Clausewitz seems
to have addressed, "metaphysically," as it is said, in terms of will,
desire, appetite, measurement of aims and the resource s by which such
aims are tactically arrived at, ie strategically, etc. The rest , as it
is put in such queries I am responding to, seems to be a result of the
horrors of the 20th Century, as filtered through pacifism, etc. Kessler
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Date: Wed, 06 Feb 91 11:10 PST
From: KESSLER <IME9JFK@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 4.0981 Queries: Slavic OCR; Word/WP Mac/dos xfer;... (6/113)
Coombs, et al. If youy think kthe annual survey of freshman by Austin
is tenden tious, you should have seen the vast survey about "diversity,"
sent out to the Faculty last Quarter! An abomination of a sublime
order, so to say, printed on heavy stock, and simply 80% massagingly
insane. When I did not turn mine in, I received another letter, with
another fat packet. It allowed for very little tr uth, and was aimed
only at coercing everyone into a certain world view, that is based on
polemic and propaganda, armtwisting, and disinegenuous "objectivity." I
know of several colleagues who wrote angry notes all over the damn
forms. I s tarted to comment, but gave up, and tossed it again. It is
a gem of its kind, a nd, I would suppose its derivation from consumer
surveys, which have a long his tory out of U of Michigan Institute, and
are refined economic instruments, has been warped and distorted through
so-called opinion polls, and into this manipu lative form for policy, to
satisfy certain political requirements imposed upon the Academy, if it
is beholden to anyone for $$$, and all but Church-supported schols are,
I would imagine, and even then...say Notre Dame, may require Govern emnt
bucks$$$ often enough. If the US Government knew how very biassed so
much of the Notre Dame administration is! Practically an overseas arm
of Ortega duri ng the dictatorship of the East Germans, Russians, and
Bulgarians in Managua du ring the last decade.... Etc.... Surveys! Who,
whom? as Lenin once asked. Kessl er