Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 00:24:30 +0100
From: Colin Wight <Colin.Wight-AT-aber.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: various queries


Hi carrol,

As a necessary but non-sufficent condition for the changing of society I
think acting as you would wish others to act is at least a start. Kant
didn't get everything wrong. One can hardly imagine a society of fascists
attempting to make society non-fascist, and collective action aimed at
changing society will only come about when some people deem society should
change (the necessary but not sufficienbt condition). Of course, none of
this rules out the possibility of someone saying you lot should cahnge but
I won't, but I don't take such theory-prcatice contradiction very
serioulsy. Incidentally do we really need a high-faluting theoretical term
when the good old homely "hypocricy" does quite well?

Cheers,

At 14:45 02/06/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>Colin Wight wrote:
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>> >- and what about the theorem "Thus one changes society by
>> >first (and also) changing oneself."[EW:68] ?
>>
>> Don't mind this, as a necessary but insufficient condition.
>>
>
>I would think engagement in collective struggle to change society was
>the necessary (and sometimes sufficient) condition of changing
>oneself. Changing oneself in isolation from such struggle is the tree
>that falls in the forest heard by noone (including oneself).
>
>Carrol
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Dr. Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Wales
SY23 3DA
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