[SGVLUG] Off-topic - Hans Reiser article - murder trial

[Rae Yip]

Hi Dustin,

While I agree with you about Hans, are you actually suggesting that
postmodern relativism is the direct result of Socratic philosophy, and
that this is responsible for all our woes? And what is 'traditional
ethics' if Classical ethics isn't it?

Perhaps I am not parsing your statement correctly, but I tend to
disagree. Let's not throw the (admittedly very old) baby out with the
bathwater. Better education *can* help with the problem in general, if
not in the specific case of Reiser. I'll be happy to discuss this
privately with you.

-Rae.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Dustin Laurence <dustin at laurences.net> wrote:
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> I could add a diatribe about how it is postmodern Western culture that
> teaches people that they have no responsibility or guilt, that this is
> the inevitable consequence of a very sick, disfunctional society that
> believes with Plato's Socrates that all evil is caused by bad education
> or ignorance, and that only traditional ethics has any chance of doing
> otherwise, but I shall refrain.
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> Sadly,
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> Dustin
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