[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

[Carrol Cox]

If a proposition applies to more than 1 incident, then it is abstract.
If it applies to _anything_ that happens tomorrow, then it is abstract.
If it applies to two or more people, then it is abstract. I'm not sure
how Doug is using the word "abstract" here. If a moral proposition isn't
abstract it is meaningless.

Carrol

Miles Jackson wrote:
> 
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 25, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> >
> >> The Ollman chapter that Carrol mentioned earlier in the thread is
> >> helpful here (online at
> >> http://www.nyu.edu/projects/ollman/docs/a_ch04.php) .  The claim
> that
> >> we should use abstract, universal principles to  judge specific
> acts
> >> is capitalist ideology through and through.
> >
> >
> > Who said anything about abstract, universal principles? You and
> Carrol
> > do, but I didn't.
> 
> Well, that helps.  It reinforces Matthew's point earlier in the thread
> that people are using the terms "morality" and "moral judgments" in
> different ways.
> 
> Miles
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