[MD] Royce and the Dialogic Commons

[MarshaV]

At 06:56 PM 5/26/2009, you wrote:

> >John:
> >It was the urge of academia  to cast off the theological
> >determinism which had dominated thought for too long.    Which I can
> >sympathise, but has obviously gone too far, as reactions often do.

Greetings John,
How has the "casting off the theological determinism which dominated 
thought for too long." gone too far?

Marsha





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> >Marsha:
> > Would you like to bring back the religious view that all events in the
> > world were pre-ordained by God?
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> >
> > Marsha
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>John:
>Hmmm,  what would the pragmatic implications be?   Do you mean for
>everybody, or just myself?
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>Because I was thinking that if everybody else believed that, I could do
>stuff like kick them in the shins and take their wallet and buy a
>cheeseburger and they couldn't complain at all.  Being God's will and all
>that.
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>And I suppose if I fully believed it myself, I could still do the same
>thing.  But either way I'd probably suffer the consequences of my actions
>and land in jail and have to accept that as God's will also.  I don't know
>if it'd make much functional difference in my life so I guess I'd have to
>say I really have no personal preference.
>
>But thanks for asking.


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