[MD] Value and the Individual

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

>> Platt:
>> > Can you be more specific as to how conservatism is presented. For
>> > instance,
>> > what books are required reading that present the conservative view?
>>
>> Overview books. That present the history of Europe and the world. The
>> development of political philosophy is also presented there. The relevant
>> parts, those that had an impact on things. I am not sure how the material
>> looks in the department of political science.   That is not within the
>> Faculty of Humanities.
>
> I surprised political science is not in the humanities. Is economics?

No. Lund University was founded in 1666 and the current faculties  is
* Faculty of Humanities
* Faculty of Theology
* Faculty of Medicine
 * Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Natural Sciences
* Faculty of Social Sciences
* Lund School of Economics and Management
 * Faculty of Engineering (Lund Institute of Technology)
 * Academies of Performing and Visual Arts (the Academies of Music, Art, and 
Theatre)

And the Humanities is an extension of what previously lay within the 
original faculty of philosophy when the university was founded.

Here is more if you wish to read for yourself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund_university

>> >> But then, conservatism isn't a real philosophy as such, only a
>> >> reactionary
>> >> movement, and as for the politics you stand for - well, we know 
>> >> America
>> >> has
>> >> nutjobs, the whole world knows that,  so, that a political agenda that
>> >> was
>> >> abandoned about a 100 years ago in most of the developed world is 
>> >> still
>> >> in
>> >> play... Well, no one is surprised.  You'll keep on thinking freedom is
>> >> something that you have monopoly on and can be brought to be with your
>> >> guns,
>> >> and you will keep thinking that it's okay for that single mom and her
>> >> sons
>> >> to die starving in the gutter for the sake of the "American Dream" We
>> >> really
>> >> don't have much hope for you.
>>
>> Platt:
>> > Have you ever been to America?
>>
>> Yes. So has most of the people I work and study with. Our picture of 
>> America
>> is pretty similar in all relevant aspects.
>
> What states did you visit and how often did you see a single mom and her 
> sons
> dieing in a gutter?
>
> Platt

Are you denying that there is extreme poverty in the US?