>>>>>> In my 48 year teaching career, I started in thermodynamics, progressed through >>>>>> psycho-analysis, then the character study of Gestalt work, Somatic studies and >>>>>> laryngeal bio-mechanics and the therapy methods of the latter 25 years of the >>>>>> 20th century. But a funny thing happened on the way to all of this knowledge. >>>>>> Voice teaching just seemed to be bigger than all of it. <<<<<< >>>> ... the underlying process is that there are many processes and that all of them >>>> who answer all of the questions, work...<<<< >>> ... Everything is true, sometime and someplace. For me the issue is our being >>> able to choose the world that we wish to florish in and to raise our own children >>> so that they can be free to do the same without losing all of that "rear-end" >>> knowledge. <<<<
Well said, Ray. Well done! Reminds me of the ideas of that fabulous (& too much overlooked) British historian and philosopher RG Collingwood (1889-1943). Collingwood argued that human knowledge is nothing more *nor less* than the *history* of everything that ever has been (successfully) known, each in its time and place - rather like TS Kuhn's notion of "paradigms" but more deeply historical. (Could see RG Collingwood, *The Idea of Nature* and/or *The Idea of History*.) PS - I thought Hobbes best to make the case for the irreducible reality of social/civic entities since Hobbes begins, as you note, from a very hard-line reductionist materialism. Yet he comes out on the right side of things (I think). best wishes, Stephen Straker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vancouver, B.C. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
