Comments for much and earnest

Comment on music by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:44:05 +0000

sorry, left out a word…”that” between “complaint some”. HA!

Comment on music by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:42:54 +0000

I see. I too have always wanted someone to elaborate on this complaint some music (sans lyrics), is “bad”, but no one seems to want to provide details. We are left to discussing it in the abstract and counting on our intuition to make judgments.

Comment on form as crucible by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:37:28 +0000

Piaget meant a basic concept that was modified by experience. Like the concept of “Dog” can be modified to include a chihuahua or a great dane. It was a sort of framework that was the foundation for details.

Comment on music by Seth

Seth — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:14:15 +0000

I don’t mean that promoting virtue is a bad idea – just that I wanted to hear more about the particulars of how rhythm and melody can encourage or discourage virtuous behavior.

The rel. of action to “status” or “quality” (for example, the relationship of a virtuous action to the quality of being virtuous) is very close, according to Aristotle. He says in *Nicomachean Ethics* that to become virtuous you must act virtuously. If you want to be continent, act with continence. The more often you practice continence, the closer you come to being continent.

Comment on form as crucible by Seth

Seth — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:07:06 +0000

Not sure – he’s referring to the form, the kind of skin – of a poem. What does Piaget mean?

Comment on music by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:36:59 +0000

I’m not seeing that…I think he’s making a plea for virtue as opposed to moral behavior and civility. And virtue is more fulfilling/satisfying and eventually more effective in producing a culture that is more civil and moral. But what do I know!

Comment on form as crucible by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:11:29 +0000

Interesting. Is this concept “scheme” similar to Piaget’s concept of scheme?

Comment on “When somebody is a little bit wrong…” by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:27:23 +0000

I’ve been that surprised, though to date, no one has bitten my nose.

Comment on andy, september 2009 by Tim Holler

Tim Holler — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:08:16 +0000

Great shot!

Comment on theory and practice by trholler

trholler — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:54:44 +0000

Interesting.

Comment on Nickleby by Tim

Tim — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:39:09 +0000

Nice review and good guestions, though it’s been too long for me to respond intelligently since I read the book. I do remember loving the brothers and Mrs. Nickleby’s insane suitor. I rolled off the bed laughing at the vegetables flying over the fence! I’ve also noticed, over the years, that Dickens sometimes opens a door and never walks through it. It’s frustrating but not enough to make me stop reading.

Comment on our secondborn by Bill

Bill — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:36:33 +0000

Wow–you and your wife sure make beautiful babies.

Comment on a hopeful sign re: academic criticism by Evan Chastain

Evan Chastain — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:03:12 +0000

I felt the same way (re: Marxism), after writing a paper on semblances of reification in Timon of Athens and ended up reading Jameson, Lukacs, and most recently have been reading Adorno and Benjamin. Mostly sticking to the Frankfurt school, but I find it quite intriguing on a theoretical level, I just don’t really like the practical ramifications. Adorno’s aesthetic theory, from what I’ve read so far, is interesting.

Comment on a hopeful sign re: academic criticism by Seth

Seth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:57:07 +0000

My thesis is more a question than an argument – it’s concerned precisely with the problem you’ve identified re: the difficulty of achieving an apolitical (or at least less political) reading of an text that is in a certain sense very political. Will let you know more when I know more.

Strangely enough, Marxism has a certain appeal to me these days. Not quite sure what to say, beyond that.

Comment on a hopeful sign re: academic criticism by Evan

Evan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:54:19 +0000

“‘Midnight’s Children’, as a ‘fun book’”

*I read it as a fun book…