Is there anything in the study of telos that demands it be unitary?  Even 
assuming "truth" and "social justice" are fundamentally disjoint, why must a 
university choose one over the other when they "collide"?  The epithet "linear 
thinker" comes to mind.

Haidt's parenthetical is important: "But an institution such as a university 
must have one and only one highest and inviolable good."

Institutions are complex, whether more or less so than the individuals 
composing them is debatable.  But anyone who sells you with a pitch claiming 
that a university is a simple structure that must have a single arching 
_purpose_ is obviously a huckster of some sort.


On 12/05/2016 07:33 AM, Eric Charles wrote:
> Seems like the type of thing this group likes to digest. (Note, there is an 
> outline of the talk below the video, so you don't need to watch anything.)
> 
> http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justice/

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