Ethical foundations of the left

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Jul 24 23:55:03 PDT 2001



> That is what I meant a while ago when I told Luke that you don't
> approach ethics from outside politics, but from within a political
> framework. And a political framework is a practical one. Luke, you might >
start your study of historical materialism with meditations on Marx's
> Theses on Feuerbach, which is short and decptively simple. I have been
> thinking about it, yea this quarter century, since I was your age,
actually,
> Luke, and I am still learning from it.

Will do. Thanks for the recommendation.


> CB: Sounds like a budding pragmatist to me.

Of a different sort, i.e. the "ends justify the means." Unfortunate that terms used in philosophical discourse (and just about any other field with lots of "theory") have definitions that often don't correspond with common usage.


> Speak for yourself, Charles, I gotta go now and do some justice.

One of the better one-liners I've encountered on lbo.

-- Luke



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