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Re: dirty hands philosophy
- To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: dirty hands philosophy
- From: "John Schinnerer" <johns@eco-living.net>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:42:00 -0700
- Newsgroups: permaculture
- References: <LYR75849-65284-2000.07.02-14.58.15--hanzibra#svn.com.br@franklin.oit.unc.edu> <LYR114878-78829-2000.09.14-14.54.53--johns#eco-living.net@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Reply-to: "John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>
Aloha,
> From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
> ...Again using science as an analogy, the people who do philosophy of
> science--trying to figure out how science works and what it's doing--are
> usually not the same people who are actually doing science.
In other words, they've taken a distinction and made it a separation, and
in some cases made it an opposition (philosophers vs. scientists, as though
they were two different species... ;-).
> Or more
> precisely, most scientists don't care one whit about the philosophy
behind
> it.
With results such as Hiroshima, nerve gas, genetic manipulation,
etc....loss of systemic perspective seems inevitably pathogenic.
> I'd venture that the same it true here: the majority of practicing
> permies want to get their hands dirty, and may be less interested in a
> long-winded philosophical discussion...
Which is jolly good, as long as the systemic origins and perspectives of
Permaculture ("lived philosophy?") are embodied as part of "getting (our)
hands dirty!"
John Schinnerer
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