Ricardo, do you mean that an unprincipled person is someone who deliberately believes things s/he knows to be untrue? Wow, that's cool. Mark Ricardo Duchesne wrote: > > > 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
