>(A) My--ideological--belief that the liberal ideological commitment >to the autonomous subject is a good (although false) stance to adopt >because it is less likely than other stances to lead to horrible >crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia? Brad, for us ignorati could you briefly explain what belief in the "autonomous subject" entails and why you think it is false? Bill >> My bet is that BDL recognizes the intellectual superiority and higher potential upside benefits of a neo-marxian world view, but out of fear of the magnitude and probability of downside risk from this view (i.e., Pol Pot) defaults to a rights-based perspective which may have a lower mean result but less variance too. In other words, he's not a plunger. mbs
