Prof. Francis Beckwith (the recently reverted phil...

2008-08-30T15:42:00.000-06:00

Prof. Francis Beckwith (the recently reverted philosophy don) is off to Notre Dame to work on a book parsing the tyranny of relativism at work in our Supreme Court:
http://www.whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2008/08/off_to_notre_dame.html#comments
A preliminary post I made there was "held for review" and lost: I had pointed to these two resources by way of illuminating the complexities of firstly, acknowledging the mysterious genius of human action (and not reducing it to logical positivism of the political "right" or "left" flavors): see this almost fifty year old publication by Ludwig von Mises from the Volker Fund's Symposium on Relativism, 1960 "Epistemological Relativism in the Sciences of Human Action"
http://www.mises.org/story/2975
-- | 1. Introduction | 2. Positivist Dogma and Human Action | 3. The
Alleged Materialism of Economics | 4. Science and "Irrationality" | 5.
The Serviceableness of the Means Employed to Attain the Ends Sought | 6.
Historical Relativism versus Praxeology | 7. Historicist
Self-Contradiction | 8. Ethical Relativism

and then secondly recognizing the far-reaching consequences of our most grievous sins in dire suffering and abject neglect of huge swathes of humanity, no way tolerable in this "instant messaging" world of rampant materialism... see my comments under "Catholic NGOs Miss the Boat on the Food Crisis"
http://blog.acton.org/archives/2316-Catholic-NGOs-Miss-the-Boat-on-the-Food-Crisis.html

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Prof. Francis Beckwith (the recently reverted phil...