[lbo-talk] Commie philosophical statements from bourgeois ideologist

[c b]

C. G. Estabrook < wrote:
> But Brooks seems to think that ethics is matter of the emotions, not reason.
>
> "Emotivism" - the claim that ethical sentences do not express propositions
> but emotional attitudes - is hardly defensible.  The fact/value distinction
> is a bulwark of capitalism.

^^^^^
CB: I have to look again to see if he says emotion _and_  reason.

I'm not trying to say that his thesis is all the way left. But the
parts I note are major a section of his thesis, and they are
remarkably socialist given his personal political history. Especially
the one on humans being social animals , not a collection of
individuals. The opposite notion is a major foundation of bourgeois
ideology, from existentialism to libertarianism, from social
"darwinism" to positivism, from Christianity to economic rational man
and legal reasonable man.