[PEN-L:9398] Re: My Ideologies

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I had always thought of
>>"ideology" as something different from "knowledge"
>
>Which just proves you're in the grip of ideology!
>
>
>Doug

To which of my ideologies are you referring?

(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?

(B) My--ideological--belief that it is better to inquire whether a
cat catches mice than whether it is red or white?

:-)


Brad DeLong


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