>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 01/31/00 06:27PM >>>Liberalism contains the idea of historical evolution -- the history of
Progress -- with stages and all; it is clear in Mill, Kant, and other
giants of liberalism, so it is no wonder Rawls endorses it. Some people
think that historical materialism is a version of teleology, a stagist
history of Progress, but I beg to differ. I do agree with you, however,
Marx may be inconsistent on this question.
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CB: Or maybe Marx thinks of dialectics as a valid method, and this inconsistency is an expression of it.
CB