Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id SAA13177 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:57:16 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [209.240.220.223] From: "Scott Chase" <ecphoric@hotmail.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:53:08 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F22zopPXxPsNJCed0HP00006ab1@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Mar 2001 17:53:08.0802 (UTC) FILETIME=[7218FA20:01C0BA0B] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>From: "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>To: "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: The Demise of a Meme
>Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:32:27 -0500
>
>Hi Scott Chase -
>
> >Come to think of it, Sunday school could be considered far more humane
> >treatment of children than forcing them to ruminate on Kantian ethics.
>
>Not having the pleasure of ruminating upon Kantian ethics, I nevertheless
>was exposed, at a tender age, to a sunday school. My mother, a willingly
>lapsed methodist from a strong yankee family, took me one sunday, after
>dressing me up a bit, and let me know I could come every sunday if I
>liked it. I went, and although my memory is very skimpy about it, I do
>remember feeling a definite uncomfortableness, with the scene, with the
>instructor, and with the instruction, and I informed my mother that I did
>not want to return. She nodded, and we went for ice cream sundaes,
>instead.
>
>Perhaps I felt forced in that setting- I don't remember the concise
>feeling it gave me, if indeed it gave me a concise feeling at all, more a
>general unease- but it was not 'right' in some unexplained way.
>
>That it was decidedly false I didn't know until later, although it looks
>like I had some presentiment of this.
>
>So, perhaps if my mother had brought me to a class in Kantian ethics, I
>might have felt something not quite explainedly 'right'... maybe not....
>
>That said, fiction ain't 'wrong'....
>
>
I wonder if you might have been more uncomfortable if required to read
_Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals_ and _The Critique of
Practical Reason_ after journeying into the tangled thicket of _Critique of
Pure Reason_ (without the guideposts of the _Prolegomena_).
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