>From: "Ken Hanly" <khanly at mb.sympatico.ca>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: Re: Fish weighs in
>Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 14:29:35 -0500
>
>Plato was very much aware of the fact
>that abstract philosophy was unlikely to have much influence on actual
>political life.
Actually I thought Ravi misinterpreted both my and Fish's remarks, but I felt too lazy to reply. My point wasn't that philosophy does or doesn't influence political life, my point was that any philosophy that is divorced from the world of "serious events" isn't much of a philosophy. In any event, Fish went on to contradict himself by saying that this abstruse (or whatever word he used) talk did indeed present the most sophisticated (or clearest or whatever word he used) way of understanding serious events.
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