Alon -
In response to my suggested approaches to developing appropriate standards
of judgement i.e.
* having respect for evidence
* identifying the nature of evidence
* invoking the logic of question and answer
* maintaining an aesthetically engaged and appreciative response
* an awareness of taste
* an awareness of thymos
you stated:
"These are very nice words above. What do they actually mean? Is discussing
them with words the answer? Won't it lead to an infinitive regress of words
and words and words and words and words?
I read all about Wittgensteinian word-games years ago and saved myself from
total paralysis by remembering "that it is better to travel hopefully than
to arrive". In my later hopeful travellings I came to believe that language
that describes and explains human behaviour within a dialectic can have
meaning. That is what I hold to. The language we use ideally embodies our
humanity in action - as we link our lives together through language and
joint action.
You also ask:
"What is 'taste'? What is
'aesthetically engaged and appreciative response'? What is 'evidence'? What
is an 'answer'? What is a 'question'?" . . . "
These points derive from my BERA Review 2000 at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/values/pmreview.doc ) which Jack asked me to
revisit as a means of starting the review of this e-seminar - see my
original posting at
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind0506&L=bera-practitioner-researcher&T=0&F=&S=&X=68B29363898F184B2B&Y=esspem%40bath.ac.uk&P=9355
These points were discussed in extracts from the review posted at
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/monday/pmcritbera00.html
I hope you will be able to see 'where I am coming from' if you look at the
above material again.
- Peter
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