National "Philosophy" and Climbing!

[Peter_Puget]

Reading books describing early climbing expeditions one can sense that the French rejected rationalism behaved more like empiricists, while the British rejected empiricism and acted like rationalists. The American of course were pragmatists. Dwayner, have you noticed this same "phenomenon" with regard to other types of adventures? Does this say anything about climbers?

[Dwayner]

No.

Maybe Trask has an opinion.

 

 

"Can I have an itty-bitty taste of your salad?....mmmmm! Is that feta cheese?"

[allthumbs]

When do we eat?

[terrible_ted]

quote:

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Originally posted by Peter Puget:

The American of course were pragmatists.

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Are you implying that the Americans rejected a dominant culture of impracticality?

 

-t