These comments are unfair to say the least and exhibits the philistine
depth in to which discourse in the west has sunk. An apology is due.
Soumya
Joseph Billings
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Film-Philosophy Salon Susanna Chandler
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I think I'm starting to get it. You can lead a philly to
water, but if a male philosopher or scientist --no matter
how great --is holding the cup, her thirst will burst into
flames.
Joe
--- Susanna Chandler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Wittgenstein: he is a good example of how convoluted
> things became in
> pre-War Germany. As personally negotiated by
> Wittgenstein, his family
> remitted a full 1.7 tons of gold to the Fascist party in
> order to acquire
> Mischlinge status for two of sisters [who refused to
> leave Vienna].
>
> His comments on his own ethnic identity are ponderables.
> But hardly the
> public's business. He fiercely practiced and preached
> authenticity--to the
> point of cruelty--but that doesn't undermine what he has
> to say on the
> subject.
>
> I did want to add that Nietzche hardly knew any women, so
> his particular
> attitudes are definitely irrelevant. For the most part,
> tolerance of
> differences seems to be an attribute of philosophy, not
> it's downfall.
> However, I honestly do have difficulty whenever
> encountering extreme and
> active racism and other bigotry in someone's writing. It
> just does.
> Certainly it undermines any social theory they may put
> forward.
>
> As to Newton and Einstein--while certainly philosophers
> in some sense, their
> contributions are hardly social in nature. So it hardly
> matters that
> Einstein was personally an emotional incompetent.
> Einstein's political work
> was simply his use of an acquired bully pulpit,
> comparable to the politics
> of actors and other celebrities. Newton was charmingly
> private. It is
> wonderful when individuals maintain a separation between
> professional and
> personal.
>
> Susanna
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