Rhetorical Gestures (was Re: Spivak sez...)

[kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Dennis R Redmond 
<dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> wrote:


> For one thing, Kant is the first philosopher to really wrestle with
> the notion of human rights and the national-juridical foundations of such
> in capitalist society...

Except for Locke (1632 - 1704).  I mean, you left out 
Johnnie Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1689) in 
favour of Kant (1724 - 1804) because you hate the English, 
right? - recognizing that the "Konigsberg Kickers" could 
sweep the "Oxford's Oxtails" ...

I see that you've qualified this all with capitalism... so 
maybe I've been outsourced.

ken