Re: CHAT Cartesian parataxis (was: ANNOUNCE: First longer sentence in S7)

Nono, I don't prefer anything, I just humbly recognize
that is it totally impossible to know anything about,
let's say after-death for ex, or God, or any such
topics, and thus it it is totally useless to speculate
about it, except if you're looking for a topic to
discuss with your friends when you find nothing else
to do.

Every single sentence any philosoph or theologian has
uttered from the dawn of humanity can be contradicted,
or proved false or irrelevant. But the most
interesting (we just saw this in our recent discussion
about Descartes) is not that you may prove or not that
such or such assertion is true or false, no: it is
that you spend 95% of the discussing time speculating
about what the author really MEANT, what he WANTED to
say. So the main problem is clearly not after-death,
or God, or existence, it is to make oneself be
understood by one's interlocutor. And I think that
contemporary philosophs make themselves obscure on
purpose. This I find impolite. As a French poet said,
"Ce qui se concoit bien s'enonce clairement". So, if
it is said in an obscure way, it probably doesn't need
to be studied.



--- Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> wrote:
>
> I can't see how that makes it useless. If you claim
> that theology is useless, can I assume you don't
> particularly care for any religion, and prefer to
> think that your death might as well be the end of
> the
> universe for all it matters to you?
=====
Philippe Caquant

"High thoughts must have high language." (Aristophanes, Frogs)

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