Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:56:00 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca> Subject: Re: R: postmodernism and liberalism On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, RICHARD PITHOUSE wrote: > *A lot of postmodern thought doesn't seem to have understood > Kant's distinction between conviction (inward revelation) and > belief (the public sphere of openly accountable reasons, > arguments, principles, values.) Hence the Gulf War becomes more > important as a media spectacle than as a reality etc, etc. Um ... Kant thought that the French revolution was more important as a spectacle than as a reality. Matthew ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto--- dear readers, my apologies. I'm drifting in and out of sleep. ---------------------------------(R.E.M.)----------------------------------
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