"Violence" as a Useless Category, was Re: Just Wars

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>  > Ian Murray wrote:
>  > > Having problems with the meanings of nominalism again Carrol :-)?
>  >
>>  Yup. I'm on a slippery slope I know. But in one of the Dialogues
>>  Socrates compares a dialectician to a carver -- the good carver divides
>>  the meat at the joints rather than splintering the bones. And I rather
>>  think that "violence" as a category splinters a good number of bones and
>>  misses a number of joints.
>>
>>  Carrol
>==========
>It's interesting how slippery slope "sorites" arguments took off in 
>ethical discourse
>via Protagoras and his merry brand of pranxterz. The debate has been 
>going on ever
>since with no let up in sight.
>
>The questions for our time aren't about carving that meat, it's 
>about understanding
>how to create new forms of nourishment; a neo-Epicurean ecology of emotions,
>administrative competences, food systems, conflict resolution forums,
>architectures/homes that fuse living systems with "advanced" "forms" 
>of "matter"
>etc......a happy type of microbial micropolitics based on a respect for the
>plasticity and incontinence of space-time and each other.
>
>Ian

A "neo-Epicurean ecology" sounds vaguely benign (though I don't know 
what it actually means), but "administrative competences" & "conflict 
resolution forums" (especially when they come together in the age of 
multinational neo-colonialism, reminding me of East Timor for 
instance) sound unfortunately technocratic (though again I don't have 
a clue what concrete forms you think such ideas should take).

Yoshie