tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post8626592558265794458..comments2024-02-02T07:41:55.155-05:00Comments on The Headpiece for the Staff of Ra: What do The Feminists believe?MosBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396378353702882073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-86125973138441132462008-08-31T10:47:00.000-04:002008-08-31T10:47:00.000-04:00First, if the claim is that all feminists are dogm...First, if the claim is that all feminists are dogmatic, in an individual sense, then it's simply and clearly false. <BR/><BR/>Second, it doesn't seem to me like `dogmatic' is said, in the first instance, of individuals. Rather, it's said of a community, whose members all share certain beliefs -- and hold those beliefs in a certain way, which I think is what you're really trying to get at. <BR/><BR/>Suppose we consider the community of intelligent design theorists and (hypothetical) `Darwinists' (that is, mainstream biologists as ID proponents view them). Every individual in this community, <EM>ex hypothesi</EM>, is dogmatic in the sense you're suggesting -- as individuals, their beliefs are inflexible and narrow-minded, etc. Call this the community of evolution debaters. <BR/><BR/>Now, are the evolution debaters <EM>as a community</EM> dogmatic? I would say no -- their beliefs qua evolution debaters are too heterogeneous. <BR/><BR/>Similarly, in the strictly hypothetical case you consider, I don't feel like we would or should call feminists -- that is, the community of a feminists -- dogmatic. Their beliefs are too heterogeneous. <BR/><BR/>Let me make this point another way. Take a(nother) look at the comment I link to in the first paragraph of the post. The caricature is not that feminists are, individually, dogmatic and inflexible. The accusation is first and foremost that <EM>the site</EM>, ie, the community of feminist philosophers, is dogmatic, not that I, individually, am dogmatic.Noumenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442204504120141558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-62566018459639984562008-08-31T00:29:00.000-04:002008-08-31T00:29:00.000-04:00Surely feminists need not all share a common dogma...Surely feminists need not all share a common dogma to be dogmatic. Consider that if every feminist--however different she may be from other feminists--is individually dogmatic, inflexible and narrow-minded, then it may be said that feminists in general are dogmatic, inflexible and narrow minded. Whether they are additionally dogmatic in regard to precisely the same set of beliefs is beside the point. <BR/><BR/>If it's true that feminists are as diverse as you say, that's certainly interesting; but it doesn't follow that they aren't often dogmatic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-48321720594225729082008-08-08T20:24:00.000-04:002008-08-08T20:24:00.000-04:00Great info. I learned a lot of new things here...M...Great info. I learned a lot of new things here...<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://mind-booster.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Mind Booster</A><BR/><A HREF="http://mind-booster.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">http://mind-booster.blogspot.com</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com