[lbo-talk] Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN

Eubulides autoplectic at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 09:30:58 PDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ted Winslow <egwinslow at rogers.com> wrote:


> What anti-foundationalism claims is that there are no rational grounds for
> evaluating "thinking" and "feeling", no basis, for instance, for judging
> Glenn Beck's tears and anger as examples of "feeling wrongly".
>
> The tradition deriving from Aristotle disputes this, but it elaborates
> rational thinking and feeling as "virtue", as the expression of a "second
> nature".  So an individiual trying to reach the right feeling by consulting
> a book hasn't understood Aristotle's ethics.
>
> Marx, sublating Aristotle, claimed that those who think and feel wrongly
> couldn't create "socialism".  It couldn't, for example, be created by the
> individuals enjoying the activity captured in the postcards collected
> together here.
>
> <http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/>
>
> They're thinking and feeling wrongly.
>
> Ted

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Ah yes. The appeal to one tradition and web of authority.

How Quaint.

Onward Megarians!

Ian

"Reason demands belief in infinitely many contradictions" [Roy Sorenson]



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