Subject: Re: HAB: Understanding communicative action
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 12:53:51 PST


>> The "why should I value understanding?" approach to 
>making Ken-like points plays too much into the hands the the 
>churlish, terrible-two ("Just say no") mentality one all-too-often 
>finds among those of Derridian persuasion, which is 
>all-too-easily dismissed, so that some substantial
>> points might easily be unheard.
>
>No.  I am arguing that values are unavoidably entwined with 
>practical reason.  By doing so I am hardly dismissing 
>substantial points that might easily be unheard.  I am doing 
>something VERY different - I'm taking these points seriously, 
>and trying to illuminate the driving factors beneath them - the 
>imagination, desire, love, and compassion -  and pursuing 
>them ruthlessly without an appeal to some sort of 
>transcendental form of reason.
>
>emphatically,
>ken


No, no, no, Ken.  I did not mean to implicate you in any way, and--if 
anything--the above was a point intended in your favor.

EMPHATICALLY,
Erik

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