[lbo-talk] Noam 1, Israelo-apartheid 0

[c b]

That's not what the Cohen & Rogers article says, and from all the
Chomsky I've read, I'd agree with them. He does seem to believe in
some innate human lust for freedom and justice that's repressed or
distorted by misunderstanding and a bad society. There's no room for
craziness or fantasy in his worldview. He's almost inhumanly rational.

Doug

CB: I think you got it , Doug.

Chomsky is something of an explicit Cartesian.  DesCartes is labelled
a philosophical rationalist: " I _think_ , therefore I am."  but
included God in his scheme)
  (1965). Cartesian Linguistics. New York: Harper and Row.  (Reprint:

 (1986). Cartesian Linguistics. A Chapter in the History of
Rationalist Thought. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. )

Chomsky (1968). Language and Mind , in this he specifically mentions
his Cartesianism.

I know Chomsky is a genius and all ( though he made his reputation as
genius in linguistics, and I don't think his theories are all the rave
anymore), but it might help if he updated his philosophical basis to
at least Hegelianism, which is actually arch-rational/logical.
Cartesianism has been sublated, shall we say.