my 17- year old friend had to write an essay, 1600 words about truth and context recently, cf atwood, and so i went there with him, along the philosophical timeline, over the descartian fissure and up to today.
subjective, objective...
then i talked to a solar engineer for a while, and then returning to the intellectual fopdoodlery of how many versions of truth could dance on the head of a perception....i lost patience...
we have hard, practical problems facing us that philosophers have never faced before.
good to stretch adolescent brains, good to know how to keep an abstract ball in the air, i guess...
viva veblen
(sp?) The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.
A Subject/Object Metaphysics doesn't ask the right questions of Reality, I think.
See
Metaphysics of Quality
Your young friend could do worse than read "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
I never got the chance when I was 17, cos it hadn't been written!
Allow the right questions to be asked...
Next question. By whom?
Well, it's all relative.
