[MD] Reason, Tradition, Absolute Truth

[Gene M]

> Mike said:
> I didn't think it was necessary to get out of the liberal paradox.
> 'Indoctrinating people to think for themselves' seems like a perfectly
> good
> description, paradoxical or not. However, I also agree with your
> non-paradoxical way of putting it: "Liberalism is a set of values, but it
> is
> the set of values that says that you can have your own conception of the
> good above and beyond the minimal one's set by liberalism." Is there
> really
> any difference, though?
>
> Matt:
> Depends on if you want to be called a paradox mongerer.  Having been
> lumped
> with so-called post-modernists for quite a while, I've caught that label
> enough to be tired of it.  Typically in philosophy, one wants to stay away
> from paradox and contradiction.  If you didn't, it would be hard to tell
> if
> dialectical argumentation had any use at all.


By cutting at this argument using the MOQ, the paradox seems to fall away.
It's a social patterns of values whose purpose is to free up intellectual
patterns from Society. It's just an example of the intellectual level
growing out of the social level. It seems quite clear to me.
Social backing up Intellectual.

-Gene