agreement and
disagreement 3
honest understanding
From: at
Date: Wed Mar 3, 2004 1:32 pm
Subject: honest understanding
[from
agreement and disagreement 3:]
Patrick:
Instead of another human being honestly
trying to understand the other I find myself facing a "thrust
and parry" dialectician.
Peter Staudenmaier:
I think that is a good way to conduct public
discussion on controversial topics.
Daniel:
So honest understanding is not a desirable goal when bandying
about opinions on controversial topics?
Daniel Hindes
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From: at
Date: Thu Mar 4, 2004 6:02 pm
Subject: Re: [anthroposophy_tomorrow] honest understanding
Patrick once wrote:
Instead of another human being honestly
trying to understand the other I find myself facing a "thrust
and parry" dialectician.
Peter Staudenmaier answered:
I think that is a good way to conduct public
discussion on controversial topics.
Daniel jumped in:
So honest understanding is not a desirable
goal when bandying about opinions on controversial topics?
Peter
Staudenmaier responded:
No, that is not my position. It's the "instead
of" part of Patrick's line that I do not accept. I think
that making and assessing arguments is a crucial part of honest
understanding, not a distraction from it.
Daniel:
So here you say: "Making and assessing
arguments is a crucial part of honest understanding." I
notice that you have carefully avoided actually claiming that
you yourself are attempting to form an honest understanding.
In the last post of yours I responded to you suggested that an
honest understanding is not achievable on philosophical grounds.
Daniel Hindes
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