Re: Weber's crime & punishment

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > P.P.S.  I'm claiming more than you attribute to me.  I'm saying that
> > Max Weber committed an intellectual crime of anachronism, akin to an
> > anachronistic argument that Socrates was "gay."
>
> Is an intellectual crime anything like a thought crime?
>
> Tom Walker

No.  A thought crime cannot be constituted without _the state power_.
An intellectual crime is a problem to be identified & criticized
_amongst intellectuals_ (be they organic or traditional), which is to
say, _all human beings_.  Punishment for the former is _prison_;
punishment for the latter consists of being consigned to _the dustbin
of history_, becoming _an intellectual museum piece_, so to speak.

Yoshie