tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post5524010229887055640..comments2024-02-02T07:41:55.155-05:00Comments on The Headpiece for the Staff of Ra: Chaos, the stock market, and the ends of political philosophyMosBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14396378353702882073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-52027149413241979622007-08-11T10:33:00.000-04:002007-08-11T10:33:00.000-04:00My foil here is just political theorists and philo...My foil here is just political theorists and philosophers. (I'm too hung over to care about subject-verb agreement right now.) We may have some influence over social policy, but it's very, very indirect. <BR/><BR/>More specifically, my foil is the common assumption that a just society is orderly and stable, so that instability and disorder are incompatible with justice. It's one you see in Hobbes, but it also crops up in Marx, in MacIntyre, and in Rawls. And in `folk' political theory -- when people complain about the civil rights movement or cultural change, they're saying that something is wrong because something is disordered.Noumenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442204504120141558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6940841.post-70754547216639523122007-08-10T16:37:00.000-04:002007-08-10T16:37:00.000-04:00I got that book on Chaos back around 8th grade, or...I got that book on Chaos back around 8th grade, or whenever Jurassic Park was big, from that weird uncle who's track record on presents was always a bit spotty (the books he got me were always pretty good, but outside of that I'd get camping shovels or slippers, not exactly what young me wanted). Anyway, I remember liking it a ton, though I wish I had my copy with me now that I'm a bit older.<BR/><BR/>I'm at work now, so please forgive me if this question is easily answered by a more careful reading of the post, but is it your position that people currently trying to influence policy do so in an effort to reach a perfectly stable society? I'm willing to accept that Hobbes was all about order and stability, but is that what people envision as the goal today? That just strikes me as off, but I'd have to hear your arguments before I think I can put my finger on it.MosBenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14396378353702882073noreply@blogger.com