> Doyle, > I think if you would could you expand? I don't see > science as western.
Definitely. I have never thought that neither science nor rationality is western. To me "western" rationality is just a name and I stick "western" in front of it to take "revenge" from the west. By western rationality I mean the historical attempt to separate emotion and reason, or subjectivity and objectivity. One without the other is meaningless: without one the other cannot exits. They co-exist and are in continual tension in every human being in every social environment. This is where modernism screwed up in my view: it tried to separate the the two and bring reason to the front by supressing soul, an impossible endevaour. Although I am in full agreement with the initial postmodern critique of modernism, in the end pomos screwed up too since eventually they pushed the pendulum to the other extent and denied reason all together, not to mention that funny language they use, at least, as I understand the postmodernists. Here is a recent discussion on the A-List that started with this e-mail I posted: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2005-December/035838.html Best, Sabri
