tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post7050782460592493884..comments2024-03-08T14:23:31.503-05:00Comments on A Puff of Absurdity: Hannah Arendt's On ViolenceMarie Snyderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13872774009526266579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post-26394879517229119992019-08-24T22:23:47.978-04:002019-08-24T22:23:47.978-04:00Thanks, BM. I'm still digesting it myself. The...Thanks, BM. I'm still digesting it myself. There are so many further implications to her ideas here. <br /><br />On <a href="http://apuffofabsurdity.blogspot.com/2017/06/on-bertrand-russells-conquest-of.html" rel="nofollow">Russell</a>, when I was in uni, a couple profs encouraged me to do a PhD because I was really good at logic, and few people majoring in philosophy are naturally adept at formal logic because then they'd likely be very good at math. And if you're good at math, why in the world would you be majoring in philosophy! So there's <i>that</i>.Marie Snyderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13872774009526266579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5939915290794973654.post-24236363671916470702019-08-24T17:28:50.078-04:002019-08-24T17:28:50.078-04:00Well, that was a great piece of work on your part!...Well, that was a great piece of work on your part! Thank you. Really enjoyable.<br /><br />Going to have to digest it all so that the logic involved becomes more ingrained in my mind, because at first blush it explains so much to me. I'm a retired technical type so was never exposed to a decent bit of political philosophy.<br /><br />There's another effect of specialization/compartmentalization, an example of which is the disdain we all felt as university engineering students back in the late 1960s towards people like those in the philosophy department. No real reason, just regular dumb folk exercising the usual foibles of having an opinion based on nothing of any import whatsoever, although I always wondered why Bertrand Russell was a mathematician.<br /><br />Good stuff.<br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com