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Infection, Dialectics
Taking a couple of days off work as I have an skin infection that has caused my lower left leg and foot to swell up. Perhaps related, I've been a bit ditzy in the past few days; left the house to go to the doctor's yesterday, forgetting my keys and 'phone. Left my beret at the doctor's and returned home to find myself locked outside. Fortunately Willsmere has good amenities so after working out I really couldn't fit through the second-floor window, I spent a couple of hours in the library reading The Great Conversation, followed by old edition of International Economics, before spending a couple of hours in the gym.
This Sunday will be given a presentation at The Philosophy Forum on "The Advantages and Limitations of Dialectical Reasoning"; 12.30pm Unitarian Church hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. It will cover ancient and medieval version of dialectics (including Hellenes, Indian, Daoist), look at Fitche and the the Hegelian revolution (especially Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic), the Marxist inversion (Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature, Fitche's formulation, critics such as Popper (second volume of The Open Society and It's Enemies), idealisations such as Sartre (Critique fo Dialectical Reasoning, and contemporay endeavours (formalism, Derrida's deconstructionalism in Of Grammatology). Come to think of it, perhaps at some stage The Forum should have its own website; you know after eleven or twelve years of the Forum running it couldn't probably do with a permanent record of some sort.
This Sunday will be given a presentation at The Philosophy Forum on "The Advantages and Limitations of Dialectical Reasoning"; 12.30pm Unitarian Church hall, 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne. It will cover ancient and medieval version of dialectics (including Hellenes, Indian, Daoist), look at Fitche and the the Hegelian revolution (especially Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic), the Marxist inversion (Anti-Dühring, Dialectics of Nature, Fitche's formulation, critics such as Popper (second volume of The Open Society and It's Enemies), idealisations such as Sartre (Critique fo Dialectical Reasoning, and contemporay endeavours (formalism, Derrida's deconstructionalism in Of Grammatology). Come to think of it, perhaps at some stage The Forum should have its own website; you know after eleven or twelve years of the Forum running it couldn't probably do with a permanent record of some sort.
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This said it was cold and wet and I was wearing shorts. The high ceiling of the old library didn't really protect from the cold, so two hours in the gym apart from supposed health benefits also had the advantage of keeping me warm.
Similar to your Waffle House incident, after an election party in 1999 I found myself alone in a country Victorian town. In that situation a laneway ended up where I rested my head. Caught up with one of the party workers the following morning for an early breakfast and we couldn't shake the assumption for years to come that ended up in a hotel room together!