[MD] Proust vs Hobbes

[Jan-Anders]

Hi Marsha

I don't agree with that it's just art. Literal communication makes us 
come closer to each others thinking and we can define certain distinct  
common philosophical tools to be used in the extended process of 
expanding the intellectual level. One tool we got from RMP is the MOQ 
and the 4 levels, just as an example.

"For such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many 
others to be more witty, or more eloquent or more learned, yet they will 
hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves; for they see their 
own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance."
(Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan ch. XIII)

Jan-Anders


moq_discuss-request at lists.moqtalk.org wrote 2011-01-24 10.35:
> Greetings Jan-Anders,
>
> Since ZMM and LILA are literary works of art, it might be worth considering this quote:
>
> "Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."
>       ---Marcel Proust
>
>
> Marsha