Posted by question on July 04, 2002 at 14:34:17:
In Reply to: why play wagner? posted by gc on July 03, 2002 at 22:38:19:
This is rather deeper than the usual summer-time tubenet fodder, and might be something you want to discuss in your graduate-level music classes at the University of Northern Colorado. In the meantime, "gc", be sure to pay attention in your undergrad philosophy classes (they do require you to learn critical-thinking skills there do they not?) and pay particular attention in your studies of Aristotle and his examples of fallacious reasoning. Aristotle listed 63 examples of faulty reasoning, in effect to debunk emotional rationalizations for poor behavior-one of which was "two wrongs don't make a right." To Aristotle, your hinted-at perception of bigotry on Wagner's part would not justify your obviously-little-studied bigotry towards all things Wagner.