The Courage of a Fitting Response

Wittgenstein: "Courage is Always Original." What does that mean?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbjJI5N0Q4
This is a celebratory response video to someone who has not read my book (and as an aside this is despite the fact that my book is not exclusively about Heidegger but equally about Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bakhtin, & Schrag) but who has given a fine talk, one tighly attuned to the nuances of precise and concise philosophical language. Check out Laureano's Virtual Home, lralon's Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/lralon This might be a channel to keep an ear on.
Also check ut Soulfetcher's latest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArzHdCWgYpo

Calvin O. Schrag's book:
http://www.amazon.com/Communicative-Praxis-Subjectivity-Philosophy-Communicat...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Selfhood
• Authenticity
• courage
• fitting responses
• Heidegger
• Philosophy
• existential

[f1ghtclub2k3]

could you provide the link please? professor. thank you.

[Professoranton]

The link is up there

[NOVICEstudios]

Wonderful insights.

[Professoranton]

Thank you

[f1ghtclub2k3]

my fault ...thanks.

[TWITfromURANUS]

I don't think I was talking about you.

Never mind...just ignore me. I go away eventually.

It's always possible that I've misunderstood what PA is driving at. No big deal anyway ... it's all interesting.

[jogayot]

cynical? i'd never, i was merely trying to be off-the-wall-original.

[TWITfromURANUS]

LOL, yep.

This glorification of originality & supposed-authenticity (with its implied sneering at 'Joe Schmo') somehow seems a far cry from stoicism.

Still, always nice to see some male bonding going down.

BTW: Cynicism is not my default position, but sometimes it really is the 'fitting response'.

[TheAgilePhilosopher]

It probably relies on «verification».

If I establish a «connection», then in the most optimal circumstances, the other «party» already has my «public key» and if not, its all «givverish» to them.

I will retain of course my «private key», because without that a «backside circulation» is not possible.

If a «signature» is not dispatched on the message, verification of the message is not possible.

[aaronhemeon]

I worry about "interpretation." I worry about the paradox of Agreement vs. Understanding. There is something revolting about being authentic (different) and fully understood. I can not imagine a pluralism that casts a net over Others. I worry about Hermeneutics treating the Other as a specimen under a microscope. I worry that to understand the identity of the Other for them, is to reduce their life into a death; to make them into merely a character in your own dream.