[lbo-talk] Contradiction

Eubulides prince.plumples at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 08:44:07 PST 2007


On Nov 30, 2007 10:22 PM, Robert Wrubel <bobwrubel at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Instead of saying contradictions are in the mind, or
> in the physical world, why not say contradictions
> arise in human attempts to interpret or control
> natural processes? A river will meander wherever the
> laws of physics allow it to, without contradiction,
> but human attempts to direct a river's course often
> fail. Human attempts to plunder the planet will fail
> too, eventually.
> BobW

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Why not just use the vocabularies of ecology and evolutionary theory? There is little dispute that our current institutional formations are maladaptive with respect to our species and others relations with the planet and it gives us a handle for slowly rolling back the nefarious grip of theistic worldviews on our political imaginations.

Ian



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