On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:22 PM, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It didn't do to thump the table or insist too much: philosophers, it was >> supposed, had taught us to see any such exhibition of critical reason as >> nothing more than a bid for power, a rhetorical trick for imposing ourselves >> on others, and with such bad manners, or worse. Especially it would not do >> if the ones who were being thumped at were victims of the colonial past, or >> descendants anxious to claim the status of victim. In that sacred sector, >> respect was the order of the day, even if it meant smiling politely at >> creationist timetables of earth history, Hindu versions of science, >> homeopathic medicine, and any other stumbling pre-scientific attempt at >> understanding the world.
Say what? Did this clown really go and conflate creationism along with miscellaneous other subjects he does not approve of? I know nothing about homeopathy, but what exactly is this "Hindu version of science" that he speaks so condescendingly of? (A Google search on the phrase returns exactly zero results.) Seems like a cheap rhetorical device to highlight the superiority of the "European version of science"? I am not sure I can take anything else he writes seriously after that.. -raghu. -- Do unto others BEFORE they do unto you! _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
