[MD] Zen

[MarshaV]

At 07:09 AM 3/6/2008, you wrote:

>     If one extends the term intellectual to include primitive
>     cultures just because they are thinking about things, why
>     stop there? How about chimpanzees? Don't they think?
>     ..... Our intellectual level is broadening to a point where it
>     is losing all its meaning.
>
>Intellect is the ability to distinguish between what's subjective and
>what's objective, my dictionary says so and I have referred to it
>repeatedly but it's water on geese. Another quote from LILA
>shows that S/O is intellect

Bo,

My dictionary's definition of intellect doesn't mention subjectivity 
or objectivity.


>     The culture in which we live hands us a set of intellectual
>     glasses to interpret experience with, and the concept of
>     the primacy of subjects and objects is built right into these
>     glasses.

Primacy doesn't imply exclusivity of subjects and objects.


Marsha




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