A Note on Logic

"Formal logic in the customary sense, therefore, represents
an artifical product of abstraction, in which the context
of intersubjective encounter, and the situation
marked by action and decision, are played down."
-- from 'Modern German Philosophy' by Rudiger Bubner,
1981, p.44 (on Hans Lipps/1938)

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On the Priority of Meaning

The pioneer sociologist Max Weber defines
the unruly term 'action' as behaviour when
and to the extent that the agent or agents
see it as subjectively meaningful ...
Which definition brings to mind
Kierkegaard's definition -->
"Truth is Subjectivity!"

Who are the true heroes?

The true heroes of history - which is to say, the true heroes of
human culture, progress, and civilization - are not its great military
conquerors and kings, but rather her legions of humble writers.
For out of these legions come all the eternal works of the great
poets, historians, scientists, and (above all) the philosophers.
If this proposition seems absurd on the face of it, consider that
it was the "philosopher-king" Thomas Jefferson who so recently
shook the pillars of the old world, and gave shape to the new world.

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