> Robert Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: "Deborah Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Take the philosopher survey: > > > http://selectsmart.com/PHILOSOPHY > > > > > > me - 1. Kant (100%) > > > 2. John Stuart Mill (95%) > > > 3. Jean-Paul Sartre (76%) > > > 4. Epicureans (75%) > > Weeell, my results weren't what I expected (except > > that Nietzsche & Ann Rand were low on my list, and > >no matches to Hobbes): > > > > 1. Aquinas (100%) > > 2. Aristotle (85%) > > 3. Spinoza (78%) > > 4. St. Augustine (73%) > > 5. Nel Noddings (68%) > 1. Jeremy Bentham (100%) > 2. John Stuart Mill (99%) > 3. Kant (95%) > 4. Aquinas (81%) > 5. Aristotle (74%) > > > Before I took the test, I'd never heard of Bentham. So who is/was he? :) The tiny snippet on Nel (quel domage!) made her sound kinda like a radical feminist, but that's incorrect: http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1998/february4/noddings.html "...Nel Noddings, the well-known philosopher of education and feminist ethics, gave [advice] to the Stanford community during her recent talk for the lecture series, "What Matters to Me and Why." "Noddings, who taught mathematics in public schools before she became a professor and a dean of the education school, listed three categories of things that she knows matter to her because of observing herself: domestic life, learning and writing, and living life as a moral quest...Noddings said she regards life as a moral quest because "I am fairly sure about some things, but not very many... "...She is sure, she said, that "it is wrong to deliberately cause unnecessary pain" and also wrong to cause it accidentally without reflecting upon if afterward. "But that leaves a lot of territory open. What is necessary pain?.." I didn't even know there _was_ a field of "Educational Philosophy." http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/92_docs/Noddings.HTM "...Before starting an analysis of what we might mean by excellence and how consideration of excellence might profitably guide educational conversation, I want to make clear that I will not work from a supposition that excellence, or any other word, has a fixed meaning. I agree with Rorty and others of postmodern inclination that we should seek new vocabularies and new meanings for old vocabularies. Clearly I cannot mean just anything by excellence. But, although it has a limited range of meaning, it can vary greatly within that range. Hence I will talk about what we might mean or should mean by excellence, and my analysis will be affected by other values I hold and perspectives I choose to take..." <grin> The Caterpillar would approve, I daresay! Debbi who has never defined any word to suit herself... ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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