Comments on: “I simply couldnt learn to swim in shallow water!” http://viosym.blogsome.com/2005/12/12/i-simply-couldnt-learn-to-swim-in-shallow-water/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:10:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: viosym http://viosym.blogsome.com/2005/12/12/i-simply-couldnt-learn-to-swim-in-shallow-water/#comment-16 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:14:08 +0100 http://viosym.blogsome.com/2005/12/12/i-simply-couldnt-learn-to-swim-in-shallow-water/#comment-16 Martin, many thanks for Hegel's quote! I think some, if not all, philosophers do try to learn swimming without get their feet wet.So their understanding of swimming, I guest, basically comes from having baths and the like--they are metaphors. No wonders philosophers like and live with metaphors. That's how they make a living:-) Yes, the best way to probe into this world is to be engaged with it! (Chenwei) Martin, many thanks for Hegel’s quote! I think some, if not all, philosophers do try to learn swimming without get their feet wet.So their understanding of swimming, I guest, basically comes from having baths and the like–they are metaphors. No wonders philosophers like and live with metaphors. That’s how they make a living:-)

Yes, the best way to probe into this world is to be engaged with it! (Chenwei)

]]> by: Martin Dumas http://viosym.blogsome.com/2005/12/12/i-simply-couldnt-learn-to-swim-in-shallow-water/#comment-15 Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:36:34 +0100 http://viosym.blogsome.com/2005/12/12/i-simply-couldnt-learn-to-swim-in-shallow-water/#comment-15 cf Hegel's critic of Kant (who was trying to divide instrumental knowledge from reality as it is): "...to seek to know before we know is as absurd as the wise resolution of Scholasticus, not to venture into the water until he had learned to swim". Let's then plunge boldly into the stream! cf Hegel’s critic of Kant (who was trying to divide instrumental knowledge from reality as it is): “…to seek to know before we know is as absurd as the wise resolution of Scholasticus, not to venture into the water until he had learned to swim”. Let’s then plunge boldly into the stream!

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