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Infection, Dialectics
May. 31st, 2013 10:09 amTaking 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.
