File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1995/95-04-30.000, message 93


Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 09:18:52 -0600
From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar-AT-keynes>
Subject: Re: Justice and Bhaskar's Dialectical Universalizability



Ok, Justin, if you don't like the words "stability is a source of
value", call it "stability is a criterion of adequacy of a system."
To me it is the same thing.  It is conservative to say emancipation is
desirable because it creates stability, instead of finding general
criteria by which emancipation is good in its own right and looking
around if one can detect such criteria being active in general, which
is what I see Bhaskar doing.

Hans.

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