Ends/Means Re: [lbo-talk] What History Will Remember

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Apr 7 07:54:23 PDT 2003


Chip Berlet wrote:
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A point Hannah Arendt makes impressed me. If a question is posed in terms of ends & means, ends tautologically justify the means. One has to escape the ends/means 'problematic' rather than make the hopeless claim that ends don't justify means. If I need groceries, the end rather tautologically justifies using energy, muscle power and gasoline, to obtain those groceries.

Carrol



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