Re: Why?

Subject: Re: Why?
From: Marc Santacroce <santa -at- TFS -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:59:46 -0800

At 10:28 AM 6/5/95, Arlen P. Walker wrote:
>>The final exam of the university Philosophy course consisted of
>>a single essay-type question: "Why?"

>>The only acceptable answer was "Why not?"

>This, I think, exemplifies what's wrong with Philosophy as an academic
>discipline today. There's a heavy emphasis on negativism, on "nots",
>rather than
>on more positive issues, on impossibilities rather than on possibilities.

>I would much prefer the answer, "Because I'm here."

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I remember an earlier thread on this list that went something like this:

To be is to do
- Satre

To do is to be
- Nietshe

Do be do be do
- Sinatra

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