In-der-Blog-sein

Blogtrotter muses on poetry contra science:

[Heidegger] makes the point that philosophy is actually closer to poetry than science. Good point - as 'science' in the sense of objective science demands that we be zombies, whilst poetry is exclusive to subjects. The famous example of a sunset - objective scientific description is trivial, whilst a poet gives a lyrical account of subjective qualia. - this point struck me again in reading also last night interview of Spiegel editor with Brian Greene of 'Elegant Universe' - in his new book he again shows how one sided he is - apparently utterly ignorant of philosophy

Well, we tend to judge folks by what they know and not what they don't know--always a lot, in our era of ever increasing specialization. Unless, that is, folks are pretending to know what they don't. Then the gloves can come off.  ¶ 6:38 PM