Ethical foundations of the left

Ian Murray seamus2001 at home.com
Thu Jul 26 10:55:48 PDT 2001



> Kelley Walker wrote:
>
> indeed, in order for there to be
> > disagreement at all there
> > must be a considerable arena of agreement . in
> > agreement there is always
> > already disagreement. both/and.
>
> Is his name Davidson, who wrote about the idea of
> charity--that disagreement can only happen on the
> basis of massive agreement? It does get rough at
> times, it seems, but sometimes it takes thrashing
> through.
>
> Alec
============== Donald Davidson. See: "The Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" and Chapter 3 of Paul Churchland's "Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind". The both/and of disagreement/agreement puts us on a slippery [and fractal] slope in all too many ethical and metaethical multilogues.

< http://www-philosophy.stanford.edu/papers/Khatchirian.pdf >

Ian



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