THEO 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: David Foster Wallace, Socratic Dialogue, Aryan Race
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2 fish swimming along, an older fish swims by and asks how"s the. One fish turns to the other and says, what the hell is water? . Water= things so basic to our understanding of the world that we are unaware. For dsm, water is our basic set of assumptions and preconceived notions about the world around us. Arrogance is to hold a belief with blind certainty. Second, only after answering the first we should ask do i agree/disagree with that framework? . This was an excerpt from a 1992 philosophical novel. The novel examines mythology, its effect on ethics, and how that relates to sustainability. Written in the style of socratic dialogue (between a man and a gorilla: ishmael begins with a newspaper ad: Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Unnamed narrator responds to ad and enters a building to find his teacher: a fully grown gorilla sitting behind a piece of glass.
