Oh gosh ,. I am skipping the popcorn and reading a good book tonight! ========================== John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, Psychology Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 ==========================
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Steele" <steel...@appstate.edu> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 5:23:52 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology and Politics On 3/10/2014 3:26 PM, John Kulig wrote: > > If I had 10 seconds to size up a person, I'd ask which is more > important: liberty or equality? I go with equality - i.e. > Civilization and its Discontents. > > ========================== > John W. Kulig, Ph.D. > Professor of Psychology > Coordinator, Psychology Honors > Plymouth State University > Plymouth NH 03264 > ========================== > Hi John: How about equality vs. equal opportunity? One of the problems I have with such contrasts is that nuances and context are missing. Are equality and equal opportunity synonyms, kissing cousins, or apples and oranges? I think that many such forced which-side-of-the-fence questions are not going to lead us in a useful direction. [It was Chris Greene who pointed out that our American framing of political questions does not represent the rest of the academic world.] Me? I have just filled up a big bowl of popcorn to watch how the Republicans deal with how the Rand Paul wing (opposed to Federal government control of many social issues) vs. the Mike Huckabee wing (maintain tradional "Christian values" for social issues) works out at the Republican polls. Ken PS - And the quotes do indicate that many Christians I know would not agree with Huckabee's list. --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: ku...@mail.plymouth.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=35237 or send a blank email to leave-35237-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=35242 or send a blank email to leave-35242-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
