C.T after DoE
Claus Hansen
clausdh at tdcspace.dk
Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:47:41 +0200
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I cant deny the importance of removing land mines... and I'm a good
socialist as well... The<br>
whole point about this is that as a species-being humans are a <i>part of
nature</i> - of course we<br>
are different than animals but we do not 'raise out of nature' as
Habermas would put it in such<br>
a radical manner that we are no longer part of it. If we were not part of
nature then the bodily<br>
pain inflicted on us by land mines in the Vietnam War could not effect us
to the stance you<br>
take against it... Can one come to an understanding of what it is like to
be in pain? I doubt it<br>
but nevertheless the experience of someone having pain has a deep
influence on us... This is<br>
the strength of Adornos philosophy imho...<br><br>
Claus<br><br>
At 11:19 09-04-03 +0000, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite>Well Claus,<br><br>
I am a bad universalist and try to be a good socialist. As a
species-being my first concern is with my fellows. i like things like the
clearance of mines from the Vietnam War, because this sort of retrogade
disamaestic solidarity probably maims and kills a lot of our
species-being as well as our friends in the animal and plant
kingdoms.<br><br>
MattP.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite>From: Claus Hansen
<clausdh@tdcspace.dk><br>
Reply-To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu<br>
To: frankfurt-school@lists.village.virginia.edu<br>
Subject: Re: C.T after DoE<br>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:04:24 +0200<br><br>
At 10:31 09-04-03 +0000, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=3Dcite class=3Dcite cite>But this draws into question
habermas's project.<br><br>
Worthless?</blockquote><br>
Yes it does indeed draw Habermas' project into question - but imho there
are so many<br>
unresolved questions arising from his transformation of critical theory
that this is<br>
inevitable regardless of the stance towards Adorno.<br><br>
The standard critique is of course<br>
Habermas view on the relation between human beings and nature: - how can
we ever<br>
conceive of the damages done to nature and animals because of the way
technology<br>
works at this present state of history in the framework of a theory of
communication and<br>
communicative rationality?</blockquote><br>
Matt the corny humanist Piscioneri<br><br>
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