December 31, 2004
Heidegger v Descartes
I know the image poppy in a computer game (Starwars)sense, but it does captures the idea of confrontation:
It suggests that the history of philosophy is a battlefield with reasoning being used as a weapon.I like it, even though the image downplays the importance of a dialogue between the French and the Germans. I prefer that conception tothe Wittgenstein view tht philosophy is "a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
Starwars. That series was all about technology and mysticism.
Could we not have a dialogue about technology, machine metaphysics and a technological mode of being. A dialogue conducted from the perspective of the biomedical future of human beings, human genetics and biopsychological engineering.
That would enable us to trangress the current debates about our bio-futures currently conducted by American liberals.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at December 31, 2004 04:22 PM | TrackBack