Comments on: The Abosolute Versus The Relative

By: ISOU

ISOU — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:24:43 +0000

The PBA today
Looks like Aldon had quite a day yesterday. Goose makes a good point about hypocrisy. Ray has a report on yesterday’s Clinton Library opening. Pesky Apostrophe is seeking comments. Want a comprehensive update of the election fraud theories, go here….

By: LatinoPundit

LatinoPundit — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 03:08:03 +0000

Morality Vs. Values
There is a discussion over at El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado, about morality and it’s place in politics….

By: HispanicPundit

HispanicPundit — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:00:01 +0000

Great perception. It fundamentally is a war of axioms. At that level nothing can truly be proven in the strict sense on either side. It truly is a war of presuppositions.

“The greatest question of our time is not communism versus individualism; not Europe versus America; not even the East versus West. It is whether men can live without God.” –Will Durant

PS: Your biases toward the relative side show through clearly since you seem to have a hard time spelling absolute (joking, of course).

By: Abogado

Abogado — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:11:20 +0000

Kant vs. Rawls; Nietzche vs. just about anyone else. Yes, I think, as should be obvious by most of my posts, that nearly everything boils down to a series of basic premises we hold. liberty vs. equality (Dworkin vs. Nozak), public vs. private (Marx vs. Smith) etc. Nearly everything can be analyzed out from a few basic premises; even if you have no basic premises (relativism) that equates to a premise of sorts, and probably leads to pragmatism. I’ve always been interested on the theoretical because I think it is the only way to really understand the practical. Funny how we always end up back here. I want to develop this more, but alas, law school memo is calling.