Comments on: Locke tercentenary

By: P.M.Lawrence

P.M.Lawrence — Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:13:51 +0000

Hang on, you’re celebrating his death?

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:01:00 +0000

Bob: It is very disorientating being agreed with! (It’s probably just as well it doesn’t happen very often.)

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 18:50:46 +0000

Crap! I wrote that before my coffee. I am an idiot.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:59:43 +0000

“Is not the Western philosophical tradition in fact the legacy of the scandalous confrontation of myth with its own historicity?” Well, sure. The purpose of most philosophers was to make their own conciousness(episteme, discourse?) ahistorical. Escape from contingency.

By: john b

john b — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:30:40 +0000

I thought Hobbes was the nasty, brutish and short one? To be Lockean, you’d have to judge the kids’ thoughts by their actions, which would be reasonable but would spoil the joke…

By: des von bladet

des von bladet — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:48:51 +0000

Thanks for the link – I am hoping to put my beloved homeland of Latveria on the intellectual map in the way “Slavering” Slavoj Zizek has done for Slovenia, but the Latverian tradition in philosophy is of course quite different from that of the English-speaking world. Kieran: He also played a mean game of Calvin-ball, but for some reason no one ever mentions that either…

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:31:46 +0000

On Saturday we had a one-day conference aimed mainly at schoolchildren I hope someone said, “Locke thought everyone was like you lot: nasty, brutish— and short.”