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From: "Jon Rubin" <j_rubin-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: To destratify or not to destratify
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 04:49:50 PST


On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Jon Rubin wrote:

"Michael - are you after Unleesh to come up with criteria for deciding 
before-hand whether some action he is about to undertake will stratify 
or restratify, or assessing some action after he has done it to decide 
whether it succesfully de/re stratified?

"Both.  Either.  Anything approaching a straight answer."

But a straight answer to the former question surely would run along the 
lines of: "I can't come up with criteria either infallible, or even just 
very good, for determining what results actions that I may hope are 
destratifying because in order to destratify it is necessary to 
experiment - and the nature of experiments precludes my knowing the 
result before-hand (otherwise it wouldn't be an experiment)."
and a straight answer to the second would simply be history, assuming 
that whatever destratifying actions he may have undertaken were not 
immediately restratified - in which case it would be futile history. It 
is hard, when writing, not to translate a notion of becoming into a 
succesion of (small "e") events.


You mentioned you're own interest in the categorical imperative, I 
think? Have you read Cutrofello's _Discipline and Critique_ ? which has 
the best attempt to rescue Kant from his own morality mire.

Jon.

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