How many times in our lives have we
encountered this demand to pigeonhole ourselves?
I have from my early youth regarded these demands as frightening and classification as covertly evil. [I'm not all that keen on quantification either.]
"pigeonhole = ...3. a neat category which usually fails to reflect actual complexities." Classification and quantification are, of course, the basis of most of our modern 'Science'.
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I had been meaning for some time to read some of Hannah Arendt; she who was frequently in bed with Martin Heidegger. Thus I was quite
pleased to discover this essay by Ian Johnston..."On Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem":
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/arendt.htm
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More johnstonia including translations from Homer:
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/index.htm
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