>
> Strictly speaking the socialists drew upon Rousseau's notion of
> "perfectabilité," (which the translator, Roger D. Masters, says
> means "the
> capacity to make progress" in J-J Rousseau, THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AND
> DISCOURSE ON THE ORIGIN OF INEQUALITY, Lester Crocker, ed. Washington
> Square Press: 1967, p. 187n). But Rousseau wasn't an
> Enlightenment thinker
> as much as a Romantic critic of the Enlightenment, who (to summarize in a
> severely simplistic sentence) argued that emotions were as important as
> Reason. The Enlightenment proper would include folks like Hobbes, Locke,
> and the Encyclopedists.
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Just because Kant and his groupies called it the Enlightenment we 21st
centurions have to blindly follow his historico-taxonomical rot? What
Enlightenment? To paraphrase Snoopy, "acutally existing civilization is
overrated"!
>
> right: "consumers" can't oppose global warming or poverty through the
> market because of the "collective action problem" (the problem of
> producing
> public or collective goods, something that is encouraged by the
> individualistic competitive environment of the market) so they need to
> mobilize the government to do something about the problem. (Of
> course, the
> collective action problem also makes it hard to unite against oppressive
> capitalists and their government.)
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Well, let's get on with collective action then........
Ian
