Re: a search for truth needing ideology. This conflates dogmatic ideology w heuristic ideology. @sapinker @aliceandrews @JonHaidt
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in the end, was surprised
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Bc if pursuit of true is subordinate to ideology there is no bridge. https://twitter.com/ricdragon/status/784782846812561408 …
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"Building bridges" is a therapeutic term which, being therapeutic, is bounded by emotions.
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In contrast Socratic method pursues true regardless of feelings. https://twitter.com/pseudoplotinus/status/784783576025882624 …
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@JonHaidt never argues we should ignore care or social justice. His point is telos. Also groping example ignores(1) -
not as horribly as Lionel Shriver´s, though. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/opinion/will-the-left-survive-the-millennials.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1 …
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"position of intellectual + emotional openness is my prescription" misses his point
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@JonHaidt In the pursuit to acknowledge both sides, the depiction of the coddling movement was not honest.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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people who were "afraid for their lives" because they saw trump graffiti need psychiatric help, not understanding.
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"Platitudes about how we can’t know what it’s like to be inside someone else’s skin are all true" 1. How do you know?
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I know from experience & evidence. The point was that we don't all respond the same way to things.http://www.journals.elsevier.com/personality-and-individual-differences …
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This is true, but is it not also true that we can respond in ways objectively disproportionate to a problem?
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e.g. if I subjectively feel incredibly anxious & at a loss b/c you utter the phrase "car safety"?
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John's point is that the desire to care for others has led to desires for equal outcomes, not treatment
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In that respect, it has occasionally come into conflict with actual justice and thereby with truth
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and 2. To what extent is the truth of that platitude itself "ideological?" The phrase "special pleading" seems apt
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