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Bubble - Good Country People

Fri= day, November 07, 2008

7:0= 9 PM

    In Good Country People – = why does O’Connor include excerpts from Hulga’s book?

     

    “= Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.  Nothing – how ca= n it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?  If science is right, then one thing stands firm:  science wishes to know nothing of nothing.  Such is after all the strictly scientific approach to Nothing.  We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing.”  = These words had been underlined with a blue pencil and they worked on Mrs. Hopew= ell like some evil incantation in gibberish.  She shut the book quickly a= nd went out of the room as if she were having a chill.

  1. Story is ve= ry detailed
  2. Science can= ’t conceive of the possibility of nothing
  3. Comment on = Hulga?
  4. You are wha= t you read
  5. She reads a= bout nothing
  6. Troubling p= assage
  7. Concept of nothing is impossible to conceive
    • Quote from an Enlighte= nment philosopher -> DeCarte
    • Occasionalism is the n= ame of the philosophy
    • Only God can do things= for real
    • Human activity is not = on its own
    • Everything is an act o= f god
    • Everything is somethin= g
    • “We only exist as go= d’s thoughts”
    • In Inferno everything = is twisted
    • Heaven is divine love<= /span>
    • In hell everything asp= ires to be nothing

    Confusion is = the prelude to insight

    • ?Statement about Ms. Hopewell
    • She hopes
    • Can’t conceive of a = world where there is nothing
    • This keeps Plato up at= night
    • Nihilism
    • Philosophy.
    • An extreme f= orm of skepticism that denies all existence.
    • A doctrine h= olding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
    • Rejection of= all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudia= te all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
    • The belief t= hat destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary= for future improvement.
    • also Nihilis= m A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorn= ed authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radi= cal change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.=
    • Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, b= ody, or self does not exist.
    • People who think god m= ade the world
    • What did he make it fr= om?
    • From nothing?
    • Or was something there before god was there (problem)
    • From God’s own subst= ance (occasionalism)
    •  

     

    P= asted from <file:///G:\Eng= lish\Dante\07-Bubble.doc>

     

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Bubble - Good Country People

Fri= day, November 07, 2008

7:0= 9 PM

    In Good Country People – = why does O’Connor include excerpts from Hulga’s book?

     

    “= Science, on the other hand, has to assert its soberness and seriousness afresh and declare that it is concerned solely with what-is.  Nothing – how ca= n it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm?  If science is right, then one thing stands firm:  science wishes to know nothing of nothing.  Such is after all the strictly scientific approach to Nothing.  We know it by wishing to know nothing of Nothing.”  = These words had been underlined with a blue pencil and they worked on Mrs. Hopew= ell like some evil incantation in gibberish.  She shut the book quickly a= nd went out of the room as if she were having a chill.

  1. Story is ve= ry detailed
  2. Science can= ’t conceive of the possibility of nothing
  3. Comment on = Hulga?
  4. You are wha= t you read
  5. She reads a= bout nothing
  6. Troubling p= assage
  7. Concept of nothing is impossible to conceive
    • Quote from an Enlighte= nment philosopher -> DeCarte
    • Occasionalism is the n= ame of the philosophy
    • Only God can do things= for real
    • Human activity is not = on its own
    • Everything is an act o= f god
    • Everything is somethin= g
    • “We only exist as go= d’s thoughts”
    • In Inferno everything = is twisted
    • Heaven is divine love<= /span>
    • In hell everything asp= ires to be nothing

    Confusion is = the prelude to insight

    • ?Statement about Ms. Hopewell
    • She hopes
    • Can’t conceive of a = world where there is nothing
    • This keeps Plato up at= night
    • Nihilism
    • Philosophy.
    • An extreme f= orm of skepticism that denies all existence.
    • A doctrine h= olding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated.
    • Rejection of= all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudia= te all previous theories of morality or religious belief.
    • The belief t= hat destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary= for future improvement.
    • also Nihilis= m A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorn= ed authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radi= cal change in society and government through terrorism and assassination.=
    • Psychiatry. A delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, b= ody, or self does not exist.
    • People who think god m= ade the world
    • What did he make it fr= om?
    • From nothing?
    • Or was something there before god was there (problem)
    • From God’s own subst= ance (occasionalism)
    •  

     

    P= asted from <file:///G:\Eng= lish\Dante\07-Bubble.doc>