Everything looks like a nail
In doing this blog I have come across a larger number of blogs than I ususally do, and it has been a pleasure to find a few jems. Bill Vallicella's Maverick Philosopher is amazing. I will leave one quote, from the many I could have used:
There are other people for whom truth counts for nothing, but power for everything. They interpret every type of interpersonal transaction as a power struggle. Thus if you calmly try to persuade such a person of the truth of some proposition by appealing to facts and reasoning correctly from them, he will interpret that as nothing but an attempt to dominate him psychologically. Such people are utterly blind to the fact that truth can sometimes be attained by dialectical means. They project their own lust for power into everyone else interpreting everything that is manifestly not a power-move as latently a power move.Every Marxist professor I even had spoke and thought just like this. My Union acts like this. They cannot seem to comprehend this at all. It's really weird but Liberals think we are determined by our surroundings, like we were cabbages or something. Then they turn around and say we need to change the environment to get better cabbages. How can a cabbage question or alter it's environment or itself? One explanation is that they think other people, people they look down upon, are determined, but they, the aristocratic ubermensch, are free. They'll never admit it though. Ok, so I wiggled two quotes in there.
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