http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/159052
Somewhat OT and somewhat not, this link goes to Walker Percy's last
public address before his death. "The San Andreas Fault in the Modern
Mind" touches on some things that have been discussed here. Its primary
focus is Percy's claim that "we do not have even the rudiments of a
science of man." Of Freud and Darwin, he notes that both were attacked
in their own time for being too radical, but both it turns out were not
radical enough: neither could explain his own activities by his own
theories. Percy goes on to introduce Charles Peirce and semiotics, the
science of signs. Percy, a trained physician, discusses complicated
thought and subjects in plain English.
Ken A
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