Re: MD Quality and the Nuremberg-Tokyo Tribunals

From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 17:39:53 BST

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    Thanks Platt for proving my point ...

    Ant said
    regurgitated pernicious Fox propaganda

    Platt said
    regurgitated pernicious BBC propaganda

    Now tell me which of those statements is not 99.99% a generalised
    reflection of the writer's politics, and negligibly related to any
    particular outcome of any particular decision made by any particular
    human using any particular philosophy.

    I's partisan politics, closer to anthroplogy than philsophy.
    It's yah boo sucks debate not worthy of intelligent beings.
    A waste of electrons and pixels.
    No apologies for being intellectual.
    Ian

    On 4/30/05, Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote:
    > Hi Anthony
    >
    > > Ant McWatt comments:
    > >
    > > I don't see why a pragmatist philosophy would need even any justification
    > > to discuss any political issue. For instance, I think what Platt writes
    > > about is largely regurgitated pernicious Fox propaganda but at least he
    > > still realises that politics is closely related to the important political
    > > values analysed by philosophy.
    >
    > I think Anthony's political views are largely regurgitated pernicious BBC
    > propaganda, but agree that philosophy and politics are legitimate
    > bedfellows.
    >
    > > The attempt to deny the close relationship between philosophy and politics
    > > is a misguided project to re-define philosophy on MOQ Discuss to make it an
    > > insipid talking shop of the Anglo-American (whitish) middle classes. If
    > > you don't like Plato's understanding of it or think Pirsig's pragmatist
    > > project of improving the American legal system is a non-starter, then maybe
    > > you should consider joining some other Discussion group looking at
    > > post-modernism or some other ostrich creating ideology.
    >
    > Couldn't agree more, especially about your nutshell description of post-
    > modernism, a la Fish and Rorty.
    >
    > Best,
    > Platt
    >
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