To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [percy-l] The West Wing's comment on Biblical contradictions
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:07:06 -0700
Roger Scruton (I think in his Modern Philosophy) puts it...well, succinctly
and memorably when he says something to the effect that if you turn
Po-Mo/Deconstructionism on itself, it "...disappears up its own backside
leaving nothing but a puff of smoke and a whif of sulfur."
> I tend to see WP as having gotten beyond all this Po-Mo BS, ironically
> pointing out that they more purveyors of such ideologies maintain that
> meaning
> is relative, that there is no truth, etc., the more rabidly such folks
> assert
> their ideologies as the only truth and their non-meaning as the only
> meaning,
> thereby shooting themselves in the philosophical foot.