Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 17:17:14 +0000
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Re: The tall poppy syndrome within CR


Ah, but you see, Gary, Bhaskar is a philosopher of emancipation (never 
mind that Hegel and Kant were too), so he has to speak the language of 
the people in all his work; 'it becomes reasonable to suggest that he 
might want to work on his style', just as Einstein (a Marxist and a 
communist) should obviously have written his theories in plain English 
too, and Picasso (ditto) should have skipped his abstract phases, etc... 
To heck with concrete singularity, the free development of each, giving 
something back and all that.

In my view this is inverse elitism and paternalism which the Bhaskarian 
philosophy utterly rejects. Ordinary people will never be able to 
appropriate anything difficult for themselves, we have chop it up into 
bite sized pieces for them and must tie ourselves to the task like a 
full-time parents....

Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au> writes
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