> From: Carrol Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PEN-L:164] Re: Mark Jones on evaluating list members > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date sent: Thu, 21 May 1998 14:47:45 -0500 (CDT) > Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carrol Cox: > Perhaps the original poster thought that "being principled" meant having > "correct principles." That would be a very boring world. Engels thought > socialism would offer rich room for disagreement, since he believed that > argument was one of the primary pleasures of life. > Yes, but a "principled" person is also someone who believes that the views s/he holds on the world are true; that something counts as knowledge only in terms of its consistency with those principles. That "principled" person will take his/her views to be the objective view, the "truth". ricardo
