[lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:21:49 +0900
I would add the authors of *The Federalist Papers* (Alexander Hamilton and
James Madison), together with Locke and Hume, De Tocqueville and
Montesquieu, and, more recently Dewey, Rawls, and Rorty. Quite interesting,
isn't it, to exclude, if only by neglect, the major theorists of liberal
democracy from the category "major thinkers."
John
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Veronica Caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Omar:Is there a major thinker that wasn't linked to totalitarianism in
> some way or other ?
>
> Thomas Jefferson. Even though he held slaves. He knew it was wrong. But
> slave holding in those days wasn't in and of itself totalitarian. A major
> thread through the economic system.
>
> Veronica Caley
>
> Milford, MI
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 02, 2010 9:58 PM
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
>
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 12/2/10, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
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> Glad of that second "Rousseau", rather than "he", without which the second
> clause has another possible meaning. If I were asked, I'd have to check -
> and only this week unfortunately the local library demanded back its copy of
> 'The Open Society'. All I can say is, having returned volume 1 on 'Plato',
> it seems totalitarianism has a lot of fathers.
>
> Is there a major thinker that wasn't linked to totalitarianism in some way
> or other ?
>
> O.K.
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