Comments on: Critical thinking http://www.jerrybrito.com/2004/11/25/critical-thinking/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:05:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jerry Brito http://www.jerrybrito.com/2004/11/25/critical-thinking/#comment-90 Jerry Brito Fri, 26 Nov 2004 03:10:42 +0000 http://www.jerrybrito.com/blog/2004/11/25/critical-thinking/#comment-90 I think that's about right. What the passage doesn't explain, though, is that what he specifically means by "punishment for heterodoxy" is excommunication from the Washington conservative network, especially exclusion from funding for scholarly work if it does not support the predefined party line. I think that’s about right. What the passage doesn’t explain, though, is that what he specifically means by “punishment for heterodoxy” is excommunication from the Washington conservative network, especially exclusion from funding for scholarly work if it does not support the predefined party line.

]]> By: aslam http://www.jerrybrito.com/2004/11/25/critical-thinking/#comment-89 aslam Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:23:18 +0000 http://www.jerrybrito.com/blog/2004/11/25/critical-thinking/#comment-89 "Punishment for heterodoxy" can exist in any intellectual clique regardless of its professed ideology. This is fundamentally antithetical to the pluralism at the basis of Liberalism and, IMHO, a manifestation of Conservative proclivities. A liberal stance does not preclude a conservative process and vice versa. I'm inclined to think that it is the latter that is truely Liberal and that is what seems to me is at the heart of not only the U.S. Constitution but also "Western ideals" in general. In other words, based on the excerpt, it seems to me that Lind is arguing for a conscientiously liberal process even to arrive at a conservative conclusion. “Punishment for heterodoxy” can exist in any intellectual clique regardless of its professed ideology. This is fundamentally antithetical to the pluralism at the basis of Liberalism and, IMHO, a manifestation of Conservative proclivities. A liberal stance does not preclude a conservative process and vice versa. I’m inclined to think that it is the latter that is truely Liberal and that is what seems to me is at the heart of not only the U.S. Constitution but also “Western ideals” in general.

In other words, based on the excerpt, it seems to me that Lind is arguing for a conscientiously liberal process even to arrive at a conservative conclusion.

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