The death of critical theory/analysis?

[Boris Godunov]

Post-modernism is a symptom of the end of the vibrancy of Western/European civilization. It's downhill from there.

[Buck Birdseed]

Critical Theory died in the eighties with the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies theorists surely? (Which in turn died with the twin spectres of post-structuralism and post-socialist radical feminism?)

[Whaleboy]

Post structuralism sucks! Superstructuralism (at the risk of sounding deterministic):

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Post-modernism is a symptom of the end of the vibrancy of Western/European civilization. It's downhill from there.

Don't let Paiktis see that post.

[BeBMan]

My original statement includes the word "evil" which I take to mean the presence of an emotion, as few rational people would claim evil to exist in its absolute definition.

The use of "evil" doesn´t indicate emotion per se, it is a moral judgement. I could say it is justified to call him evil due to his actions, hence the argument is not emotional. I don´t understand the big difference here between using "evil" in this sense, or saying he´s responsible for mass killings due to his actions.

Edit: you could say that the use of "evil" maybe appeals more on the emotions of an audience, however, if you can justify the use of this word in a reasonable way it is still not an emotional argument as such.

[Boris Godunov]

No worries, Sprayber - he's still banned.

[Whaleboy]

The use of "evil" doesn´t indicate emotion per se, it is a moral judgement. I could say it is justified to call him evil due to his actions, hence the argument is not emotional. I don´t understand the big difference here between using "evil" in this sense, or saying he´s responsible for mass killings due to his actions.

BeBro: I'm an emotivist, meaning whenever we make a moral judgement, we make an emotional yay or nay. Such things tend to absolutes. For example, if I walk in on someone having intercourse with a frozen chicken, I will immediately think it absolutely wrong, though philosophically and logically I know that my own morality only dictates what I will do and not form the basis for a philosophical system of my own, most people in my experience will forge a philosophical system attempting to account for the man and his chicken.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by Whaleboy


BeBro: I'm an emotivist, meaning whenever we make a moral judgement, we make an emotional yay or nay.

No offense, but that doesn´t make sense. In that way, we simply should avoid any moral judgement. But I can make such judgements based on reason. It is absolutely reasonable to argue that murder should be morally wrong, because a society which sees murder as something morally good and desirable would end up exterminating itself. That I can say totally without making an emotional statement (at least as I´d understand it - driven purely by emotion).

[Agathon]

Thank Christ those loons are being purged from philosophy.

It's the Analytic movement all the way babies!!

[BeBMan]

But you could lead us into the light

[Lefty Scaevola]

Re: The death of critical theory/analysis?

Originally posted by Whaleboy
I'd rather use my brain than hormones in conceptual and political matters.

You could have fooled us.

[Arrian]

Such is my experience already and I'm not even 19 yet!!

Keep this FIRMLY in mind. I'm not trying to put you down based on your age, don't get me wrong. But it would be a good idea for you to keep an open mind about things as your experience grows.

-Arrian

[Agathon]

Originally posted by BeBro


No offense, but that doesn�t make sense. In that way, we simply should avoid any moral judgement. But I can make such judgements based on reason. It is absolutely reasonable to argue that murder should be morally wrong, because a society which sees murder as something morally good and desirable would end up exterminating itself. That I can say totally without making an emotional statement (at least as I�d understand it - driven purely by emotion).

The Thuggee cult?

[BeBMan]

Did they kill eachother?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by BeBro
But you could lead us into the light

His light would likely turn out to be mostly IR: lots of heat but not very illuminating (except to certain mutants).