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I thought Haidt's point was not universal, but that we had passed some point of no return in the current situation. I have to reread it. Somebody once wrote a very profound essay on this subject 45 years ago. Oh, Wait a Minute! It was ME! <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261728846_The_Failure_of_Pluralism> I particularly like the author portrait on the title page. We’ve been here before. Clark Kerr vs The Free Speech Movement, 1964. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ?glen? Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 10:15 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Truth vs. Social Justice on college campuses 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-justi> > http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justi > ce/ -- ␦glen? ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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