Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom

[Otto]

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From: "Dave Monroe" <monrovius at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom


> Three Dialogues
> Buber: Congealing the Whirl of Doom
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Thanks Dave, great stuff.

But what you didn't copied from the beginning of the essay seems very
important to me, is a precondition of postmodernism:

"There's a respectable philosophical tradition from the British empiricists
to the phenomenologists that says causality is an imaginative construct. To
say that A causes B is to place two events in a hierarchical logic that
exists in our heads, not in nature."
http://home.olemiss.edu/~djr/pages/writer/books/html/3dialogs/buber.html

The secret word for tonight is *hierarchical* - one pole ("A") of the binary
opposition claims to be the "higher," more important pole. But
phenomenological we can only look for a cause because we have perceived the
effect, thus in our brain "B" comes before "A".

Otto