Comments on Philosophy, et cetera: Carnival of Citizens: advancing public debate

Someone just pointed me to this paper, and I thoug...

2006-11-24T21:26:03.700-05:00

Someone just pointed me to this paper, and I thought it sounded relevant to the idea.

Civil Political Discourse In A Democracy: The Contribution Of Psychology
http://www.co-operation.org/pages/contro-pol.html

I'm glad this idea is finally going to get going, ...

2006-11-08T05:37:13.496-05:00

I'm glad this idea is finally going to get going, if it became big it could really change things.

Good idea and good luck! I for one am motivated b...

2006-11-04T19:32:28.833-05:00

Good idea and good luck! I for one am motivated by the idea of CoC to get into blogging of some kind myself, so that I can get a better chance of joining in.

> Note that this need not preclude passionate crit...

2006-11-04T00:21:29.413-05:00

> Note that this need not preclude passionate criticism of public figures.

I thought maybe (to an extent) it SHOULD be.

The way to tackle that would be to challenge the theory they subscribe to as opposed to them. For example "bush is an idiot" is out (unless you can prove it and even then you also need to prove the relevance) but "bush appears to subscribe to PNAC theory and PNAC theory as described on the website is flawed by moral standard X"
Is safe and uncovers the underlying assumptions.

Good going! Now this is a blog carnival I can get ...

2006-11-03T23:28:57.260-05:00

Good going! Now this is a blog carnival I can get behind. Later on I'll add the button my sidebar as well as sending out a newsletter reminding people to get their submissions in for your upcoming edition of Carnival of the Liberals where I'll mention Carnival of Citizens too.