Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> [In reply to Steve's 28-Aug-1999 forward on the Evolution ban ;-)]
>
> Kansas State Board of Education bans teaching of economics:
> "There's no proof of an invisible hand."
>
> The Kansas State Board of Education voted to
> ban economics from the curriculum of its
> public schools citing a "profound lack of
> scientific evidence" that Adam Smith's
> invisible hand of economics exists.
[snip]
> ( http://www.bobsfridge.com/august.html )
I hypothesize this is a spoof. But, in all
seriousness, I wish it was true. I'd gladly
trade kids not being taught evolution in
exchange for them not being taught
survival-of-the-economically-fittest
(economic Darwinism).
If G-d created the world ca. 5,500 years ago,
that wouldn't hurt anybody. Capitalism
has victims in the ~ > 10**9 range.
Real evolution is not biological but in persons' growth
in self-understanding as being self-understanding (and
mutually self-determining) beings. I have recently
come across a beautiful (albeit "difficult") little book
on this subject by one of the truly humanistic
great philosophers of this century, Hans-Georg Gadamer:
_Hegel's Dialectic_ (Yale, 1976).
Yours in [to quote Gadamer from a different text:] "the
conversation that we are"....
\brad mccormick
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