[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:19:31 -0330
Quoting Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>:
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> So I look forward to scientists getting in the mix, not
> as philosopher-kings, but as truth tellers in a world
> that's perpetually up for sale.
Oy! The cynicism is unbearable. A world, our world, is a trope for an individual
human person. Indeed, our understanding of "world" is grounded in our
understanding of personhood. It is a subject of rights and obligations, just as
you and I are. And the former because of the latter. (N.B. I am not speaking of
any planet, of course.) It therefore follows that because a person has no
"fancy price," the world as well is not, and cannot be, up for sale. To sell a
world is to sell one's very soul.
Walter O.
Personal Representative
Morgan Stanley Brokers
Chase Bank
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