David Shemano wrote: > The notice of the state as a source of freedom in Anglo-American thought is > traceable to the infiltration of Hegelian influences in the mid-19th Century. > I blame T.H. Green. A disaster.<
So the perceived role of the state as a _potential_ source of freedom (in "modern liberal" thought) is not based on individuals' experience with empirical reality? the massive real-world failures of the "private sector" (e.g. such events as the Great Depression) has nothing to do with it? (nor did the popular revolts against property-owners have anything to do with it?) it's all due to the role of small number of obscure academics such as Green? did Green lead a conspiracy? did he mobilize the Illuminati to propagate his heresy? (this idealist philosophy of history is flattering: it makes professional thinkers look important! I guess that's one reason why academics tend to lean toward idealism.) -- Jim Devine / "When truth is nothing but the truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth." -- Aldous Huxley _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
