Subject: HAB: Re: Dear colleagues
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:41:30 -0300


Dear Mr.Chilton:

"to help you think about Habermas's work and discourse
| ethics-related theory",

1. Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto

Terencio: Heautontimorumenos, I, 1, 25 .


2. Max Horkheimer: Kritische Theorie. Eine Dokumentation, S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH, Frankfurt/M, 1968

3.Die nachholende Revolution. Kleine Politische Schriefte VII,. Suhrkamp V., Ff/M, 1990 
 
regards,

Raul R.

 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Chilton" <schilton-AT-d.umn.edu>
To: "Habermas elist" <habermas-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 5:16 PM
Subject: HAB: Dear colleagues


| Dear colleagues,
| 
| Everyone, certainly everyone on this list, has political
| commitments and programmatic aspirations.  However, I do not
| believe that this list is the place to pursue those.  I belong to
| this list to help me think about Habermas's work and discourse
| ethics-related theory, not to wade through political appeals.
| 
| Some may believe that such issues are appropriate to this list in
| that Habermas's work can help us understand them.  However,
| Habermas's work bears on almost any social issue, so that
| criterion doesn't exclude very many posts.
| 
| For example, Raul Rodriguez's original post was a straightforward
| appeal for action on a political issue;  it did not illuminate
| Habermas's thought or even mention Habermas's name.  Whatever
| theoretical questions might belatedly be raised to situate the
| issue within a Habermasian context, the original post did not do
| so.
| 
| We face the basic question is what sort of list we want this to
| be.  Once we start down the path of political exhortations, I
| believe the list's original, basic purpose will be lost.
| 
| Let me say that I'm not objecting to the message carried by the
| post.  I believe that Israel is treating the Palestinians
| disgracefully, and the United States is sitting idly by.  I still
| don't think that this list should be used in this way.
| 
| Even though I expect many people to disagree with this message,
| I'm not going to defend my position beyond this post.  There's
| nothing to defend, really.  It's really just the general
| intention of the list membership that is in question.
| 
| Best regards,
| 
| Steve
| 
| 
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