Allen Esterson wrote:
I think there is a natural tendency to give approbation to a book one has read that chimes with current bien pensant [sorry, sometimes one has to resort to the French for the mot juste –:)] views, or one's own feeling of what is right and just. Unfortunately that sometimes results in a failure to question whether what one is reading is a fair account of the material it is purporting to report. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org/
I agree with Allen's concern about conflating popular zusammenfassungen (notice that you can always find a longer word auf Deutsch) with scientific importance. Descartes should be on the list even though his impact has been a mixed bag of good and bad.
Ken --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
