curioisity?!! what is it? what is this petty bourgeou spiritual values about?
our curiosity starts and ends in marxism; but only good thing is it can apply in all studies. i remember an old book titled: marxism and miltary science. On 8/20/08, Dileep Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > few more quotes... > > * The Masked Philosopher (2)* > Curiosity is a vice that has been stignatised in urn by Christianity, by > philosophy, and even by a certain conception of science. Curiosity is seen > as futility.however I like the word; it suggests something quite different > to me.It evokes 'care'; it eveokes the care one takes of what exists and > what might exist;a sharpened sense of reality, but one that is never > immobilised before it; a readiness to find what surrounds us strange and > odd;a cetain determination to throw off familiar ways of thought and to look > at the same things in a different way;a passion for seizing what is > happening nowand what is disappearing;a lack of respect for the traditional > hierarchies of what is important and fundamental. > I dream of a new age of curiosity.We have the technical means;the desire is > there;there is an infinity of things to know;the people capable of doing > such work exist.So what is our problem?Too little:channels of communication > that are too narrow, almost monopolistic,inadequate. > > ...It is understandable that some people should weep over the present void > and hankr instead , in the world of ideas , after a little monarchy.But for > those who , for once in their lives , have found a new tone, a new way of > looking, a new way of doing, those people, i believe, will never feel the > need to lament that the world is error, that history is filled with people > of no consequence, and that it is time for others to keep quite so that at > last the sound of their disapproval may be heard... > > ( Essential wworks of Michel Foucault: Ethics:pp 321--328) > > -- > Dileep R I thuravoor > .. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
