Wednesday, March 23, 2011
RE IGNORAMITOCRACY AND AN OLD ARTICLE BY PETER WINCH
I was looking again at Winch's article 'Nature and Convention', in Ethics and Action.
He makes some interesting connections, between fair play (not 'justice as fairness'; I am not one of those acolytes of Rawls....), integrity, the sciences, and experts. He even manages to weave a brief reference to Joe McCarthy, and his show of pseudo-expertise, into the argument.
It seems a rather inconclusive essay in some ways, but filled with wonderful implications.
Of continuing relevance is the discussion of nature and convention, in W K C Guthrie's Volume Three of A History Of Greek Philosophy.
He makes some interesting connections, between fair play (not 'justice as fairness'; I am not one of those acolytes of Rawls....), integrity, the sciences, and experts. He even manages to weave a brief reference to Joe McCarthy, and his show of pseudo-expertise, into the argument.
It seems a rather inconclusive essay in some ways, but filled with wonderful implications.
Of continuing relevance is the discussion of nature and convention, in W K C Guthrie's Volume Three of A History Of Greek Philosophy.
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