Re: Purported mystical "knowledge"

From: Douglas Brooker (dbrooker@clara.co.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 17 2000 - 12:50:45 BST

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    "Joe E. Dees" wrote:

    > People like Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig
    > Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Aron Gurwitsch, Paul Ricoeur, Alfred
    > Schutz, Claude Levi-Strauss, A. J. Greimas, Jean Piaget, Charles Sanders
    > Peirce, Umberto Eco, Thomas Sebeok, Ferdinand de Saussure, etc. have had
    > meaningful, concrete and relevant things to say; you should try to read them
    > some time.

    The writers in the above list that I am familiar with, Husserl, Sartre,
    Wittgenstein, Levi-Strauss, Griemas and de Saussure, can equally speak to
    'mystics.'

    I would agree they have meaningful, concrete and relevant things to say.

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