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- From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)
- Subject: Re: Platos views on women
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:21:13 GMT
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- In article <memo.758259@cix.compulink.co.uk>, shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith) writes:
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- |> Agreed. Also agreed that the trauma of bereavement, of childbirth, of
- |> war, of almost any major key experience of an individual gives deep
- |> philosophical insight.
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- I am not, on the basis of my own personal experience, prepared to concede
- this. Perhaps this is because I'm not at all sure what "deep philospohical
- insight" is. However, having suffered a few experiences that count
- as traumatic, I have never attained from them anything I would regard
- in any way as deep philosophical insight. I think that whatever
- deep philosophical insight is, it results from deep and rather intense
- *study* rather than from an emotional reaction to experience.
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