Re: Challenging Assumptions in your discipline

1997-10-20 Thread Arthur Cordell
On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Harry Pollard wrote: > whole science rests on these two assumptions. In half century of teaching > adults, no-one has successfully responded to "Come up with two examples of > people not described by both Assumptions". > > They are: > > "Man's desires are unlimited"; > >

Letter to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (fwd)

1997-10-20 Thread Charles J. Reid
FYI - My response to a fund-raising letter from the DCCC. If you already got a copy, I apologize. It looked like the system went down. -- Charlie Reid Executive Producer, Community Prespectives [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Salus populi suprema est lex" (Cicero) The welfare of the peopl

NYC Conference on Economic Violence, Oct.25

1997-10-20 Thread A. Scharf
The Human Rights and Labor Solidarity Caucus at Union Theological Seminary presents: Reign of the Beast: Imperialism and Economic Violence in the Age of Global Capitalism. A one-day conference free and open to the public. Saturday October 25, noon-7 p.m., Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broad

Re: Challenging Assumptions in your discipline

1997-10-20 Thread Harry Pollard
Walter Derzko wrote (see below): It's best for a basic assumption to be a self-evident truth. It's good not to have too many, as errors are bound to creep in. (Bertrand Russell said better to have 2 than 16.) The Classical Political Economy I teach has two Basic Assumptions. The whole

Re: Challenging Assumptions in your discipline

1997-10-20 Thread Jay Hanson
At 12:18 PM 10/20/97 -0700, Harry Pollard wrote: >The Classical Political Economy I teach has two Basic Assumptions. The >whole science rests on these two assumptions. In half century of teaching >adults, no-one has successfully responded to "Come up with two examples of >people not described b