Slog - Comments on From The Border http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border Still at the Surrey, BC/Blaine, WA border crossing, and have the time to share with you this startling passage from the book I'm currently reading---Philosophy of the Future by Ludwig Feuerbach: I do need air in order to breath, water to drink, light to see, vegetable and animal materials to eat; but nothing, at least directly, in order to think. I cannot conceive of breathing without air, seeing without light, but I can conceive of a thinking that is isolated in itself. Feuerbach is here attempting show that the Reason of philosophy is none other than the God of theology.... Copyright 2008 Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:19 -0800 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:08:12 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Garrett Perhaps Graham Nash was a Feuerbachian.


"If I could make a wish
I think Id pass
Cant think of anything I need
No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound
Nothing to eat, no books to read
...
Sometimes, all I need is the Air that I Breathe"
...

- The Hollies

]]> Garrett http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786101 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:10:49 -0800 Comment by ebsur Let's start citing the German philosophers in German, please. :-)

]]> ebsur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786105 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786105 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:23:53 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger Ahh, Canada. If Only I did not have that DUI conviction from 1996 I too could travel to Canada. But alas, I can not. Stupid stupid me!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786109 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:49:06 -0800 Comment by Gitai Does he not realize that without all those other things, air, water, nutrition, he won't be able to think?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786125 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786125 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:05:03 -0800 Comment by Chris in Tampa He says nothing "directly". You need to eat and drink and breathe to live, and you need to live to think(presumably), but that's still not a direct relation.

]]> Chris in Tampa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786147 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786147 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:36:03 -0800 Comment by Dougsf I'd argue that the nature and capacity of your thoughts are a direct result of your physical condition. OK, maybe I wouldn't ARGUE it, but it's true.

Why does so much philosophy have to be arguing semantics? To much time spent on what it MEANS to be, not enough time on what it IS to be. Or something.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786212 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786212 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:10:27 -0800 Comment by herbert browne I wonder if Feuerbach can conceive of thinking without electro-chemical reaction... ^..^

]]> herbert browne http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786218 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/from_the_border#c786218 At Large Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:51:39 -0800 Comment by -B- you took a bus?
Worst way to go.

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