[lit-ideas] Fw: Re: Re: Giving Thanksgiving
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 00:04:55 -0800 (PST)
Posting this again, apparently the server doesn't like to hear any criticisms
of the liberal thinkers, lol.
--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 7:55 AM
Well, Jefferson certainly had a prolonged period of flirting with the French
Revolution, although he appears to have lost some of the enthusiasm later.
Admittedly I haven't got anything specific on Locke and Hume, but the
Postmodernists have linked pretty much all of the Enlightenment thought to
totalitarianism. (Not necessarily rightly, but that wasn't the point.)
O.K.
--- On Fri, 12/3/10, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 5:21 AM
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
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From: Omar Kusturica
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Giving Thanksgiving
--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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