(Wittgenstein
0) like to say that "texts" do not exist as such in the free-floating, meandering morass called post-modern thought, since language itself exists (cogito ergo sum), then texts must also exist. Therefore, I applaud your conviction that Ingmar et al should treat writing as a neutral endeavor or to be openly polemical. The problem with the encyclopaedic genre (a critique I draw from moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's Gifford Lectures entitled Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry), in that a form of "neutrality" is posited, but in actuality, the neutrality is often a highly politicized, albeit cloak & dagger form of will-to-power . . . I will not knock Wikipedia itself because often it is quite good. I will state however that Wik-campaigns is a on-line liberal enterprise that tries to claim objectivity, but in fact is highly political of a peculiar non-thinking, knee-jerk sort. I hold liberal views (immigration, pollution control, minimum wages, etc), but the second I defend the life of babies who are being hacked to bits by abortion "doctors" (Nazi eugenists in drag!), the whole Wik-campaigns jumps on me.
Thank you for defending textual objectivity . . . If only the 1972 Supreme Court could have been so intelligent . . . (i.e. the supposed constitutional "right" to kill babies in utero was not even in the "text," but in the "penumbra" of the text . . . in other words, NOT ACTUALLY THERE!!! So, post-modern tought can and does kill . . .)
CON CHRISTO MI SALVADOR, Rob J King (Opus Dei wannabe :-)
CH Rob J. King, M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. (ABD*)
Chaplain, AR-MEDCOM
Professor of Bible and Christian Ministry Grand Canyon University-Online
Abiding Life Christian Ministries--Phoenix & Tampa Bay
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> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:01:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Campaigns-l] Enemies of Democracy
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> > How do you think we could structure Ingmar's freedom ideas?
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> I think you should start from a philosophically neutral position.
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> I think you should view Wikipedian editors as guardians of text, not creators of it.
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> I think you should get experts to create that text.
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> Furthermore, I think you should use philosophical and not "political" classifications to avoid redundancy.
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> Anything else will have inherent bias (as much of Wikipedia does today).
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