Marxism At Yale

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Nov 19 17:25:21 PST 2001


----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Marxism At Yale


> Not the problem I am getting at. My point is that principles have to be
such
> that they are socially realizable. Ought implies can and all that.

We don't discard principles because they're too demanding; rather we attempt to more closely approximate them.


> Je suis ne pas un intuitioniste. I believe in reflective equilibrium,
which
> involves squaring our considered judgments and our explanatory principles.
> So do you, so does everyone. It's called thinking.

I wasn't aware that we all believed in reflective equilibrium.

-- Luke



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