From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 20:48:36 GMT
Andy, banging the podium, roars to a raging crowd of thousands:
"Whether or not there is a divine creator is irrelevant to the pragmatist. The fact that the MOQist, the Buddhist, the Eastern Mystic, the athiest, the Pragmatist, the neopragmatist, the conservative, the liberal, the fundamentalist Christian, the taoist, the Protestant, the Catholic, the islamist, the physicalist, the pagan, the native American, the communist, and the capitalist are light years apart on agreeing on the nature of the unfolding of an evolutinary universe and on the existence of a divine creator cannot get in the way of all these groups of individuals sitting down together to decide what we are going to do about world peace, global warming, soil depletion, water shortage, the Aids crisis, etc. These questions and the "rightness" of the answers to them can only be determined through intersubjective agreement. The best answers will come from democratic processes, experimentation, and will change through time and place."
The crowd goes wild, all recognizing the priority of democracy to philosophy.
Matt
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