[lit-ideas] Re: Some of you may remember ... ueber-gaffe
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:36:42 -0400
Volodya: This makes sense politically where the
source of authority is consensus by the polity but it
is nonsensical as a ground of justifiable moral judgement.
But your concern was precisely, "how 'culturally
inappropriate' can intelligibly be divorced from the
'should' in this case."
So I provide you with an example of the divorce by
appeal to the authority of polity. And you respond with
an argument appealing to the authority of "justifiable
moral judgement." And this leaves me to stutter and
begin sentences with conjunctions. So it becomes a
matter of "which authority?" as to how we proceed.
It's like I say this chess opening has transposed from
the Nimzovitch Defense into a Queen's gambit, and you
reply that it was a Queen's Gambit all along. Sure,
from the point of view of a Queen's Gambit at move
twelve it may be, but from the point of view of the
original opening moves, it's a Nimzo turned into a QGD.
Hence if you demand "to say something in the domain of
the latter not the former," you will, regardless of my
intervention.
Eric
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