December 15, 2004

• Judeo-Christian Heritage:
  The Wiener Kreis

  The meditation below was suggested by this passage:

  “…
  the belief that any sensible discourse had to be formulated within the
  rules of the scientific language, avoiding the non sense of the
  ordinary language. This belief, initially expressed by Wittgenstein as
  aphorisms, was later formalized by the Wiener Kreis [Vienna Circle] as a ‘logical construction of the world’….”

  “Deeply Vulgar”

  – Epithet applied in 2003 to
  Harvard President Lawrence Summers.

  “Examples are the stained-glass
  windows of knowledge.”
  — Vladimir Nabokov

  In today’s Crimson:   Only moderately vulgar, with its sniggering pop-culture reference. But it  should be Frankfurter Professor of Law.

  Deeply vulgar.

  Those seeking relief from
  Judeo-Christian vulgarity may enjoy
  the Buddhist Suzanne Vega’s

  “Songs in Red and Gray.”

  “Mercilessly tasteful”
  – Andrew Mueller

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