[lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:18:45 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 8/1/2005 6:44:52 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Inner Moral Law
>
> Andy Amago wrote:
>
> > The thing that works is the truth.
>
> and later, the same day,
>
> > Hm, what works is true. All those concentration camps worked
> > beautifully for years, therefore that makes them true.
>
> Phil is not the one who believes that 'what works is the truth.' He is
> trying to point out (via the earlie example of Bush's success), that if
> you believe that what works is 'true' (or that 'truth is what works'),
> you must believe that Bush's policies express the truth, somehow.
> Clearly, you don't believe that, but to be at least mildly consistent,
> you might want to show what happened between the first statement quoted
> above, and the attempt to disown it in the second.
>
Finally, a voice of reason. I said what works for millennia (I intended it
the first time and said it the second time). I referenced back to Moses,
using as an example sexual rights that are clearly spelled out in all
civilizations. Obviously the framers are as far removed from Bush as a
toaster that once worked is from Moses. Obvious to me, anyway. Thanks for
straightening this out. I was beginning to get a little worried about Phil
... what with him calling me a POTUS and all ... I thought, well, maybe
it's just some more Australian talk ... but then I thought, geez, maybe ...
Andy Amago
> Robert Paul
> Reed College
>
>
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