Re: mindfulness (AKA: Dueling Rhetoricians)
Kennita Watson (kwatson@netcom.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 11:35:18 -0400 (EDT)
>Kathryn Aegis quoted:
>>Gerhard Richter, painter and essayist:
>>'I have committed myself to thinking and acting without the support
>>of any ideology.... Ideologies are always
>>the seducers and exploiters of ignorance, they justify war.'
>
>Joshua McMichael counterquoted:
>Ayn Rand, writer and philosopher:
>'In order to live, man ... needs ... *philosophy*. He cannot escape
>from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding
>him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.'
[I corrected his spelling; sue me]
They're both right. Philosophy vaccinates one against ideology.
Kennita
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