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> MediaWatch Issue 10
>
> I wish in a way, that I had, you know, gone to college and gotten a
> degree. I would have tried to have gotten a degree in probably
> philosophy. If there is such a thing. Is there?
> Actress Melanie Griffith, Spokesman Review 23/11/1999
>
> Plato had the most terrible effect on Western education, because it
> meant that even if you did learn history, modern languages or something,
> that was despised compared to learning mathematics and things that
> didn't change and were abstract. In this country it led to the despising
> of practical education.
> Mary Warnock (below), In Our Time, BBC Radio Four 4/11/1999
>
> When women forge their own 'gender identity', in the way the feminists
> recommend, they become unattractive to men - or attractive only as sex
> objects, not as individual persons. And when men cease to be gentlemen,
> they become unattractive to women. Sexual companionship then goes from
> the world. All that it needs to save young people from this predicament
> is for old-fashioned moralists to steal unobserved past their feminist
> guardians and whisper the truth into eager and astonished ears - the
> truth that gender is indeed a construct, but one that involves both
> sexes, acting in mutual support, if it is to be built successfully.
> Roger Scruton, City Journal Autumn 1999
>
> If you think of Goya's famous picture about the sleep of reason bringing
> forth monsters, I would say that, if you're thinking of Enlightenment
> reason, it's reason that brings forth monsters in the sense that it
> shows us not to be creatures with high aspirations and able to reach
> them, but simply scientifically determined beings, determined by forces
> of society and by Darwinian explanations, just having to survive and
> reproduce and so on.
> Anthony O'Hear, In Our Time, BBC Radio Four 18/11/1999
>
> I don't like anything that sets itself up as an in-group or an elite,
> whether it is the Bloomsbury group or Derrida.
> Martha Nussbaum, New York Times 21/11/1999
>
> Enough of these philosophers, lets have someone who improves the lot of
> the common man. Kenneth Clarke, Advocating Henry II as a person of the
> millennium, in contradistinction to Aquinas and Machiavellli, on
> Straight Talk, BBC News 24 1/1/2000
>
> Philosophers of the world, get real! You have nothing to lose but your
> irrelevance.
> Steve Sailer, National Post Online 28/12/1999
>
> [Peter Singer's] book, Practical Ethics, is full of fallacies,
> half-truths, and the most obnoxious philosophical errors. I think it
> morally questionable that Singer should have a place at Princeton.
> Already we allow the killing of the infant in his mother's womb. But
> Peter Singer wants to take it one step further. He wants to justify the
> killing of the infant outside the room, in the rocking chair.
> Richard Oderberg on Peter Singer's controversial appointment to
> Princeton, Guardian Weekend 6/11/1999
>
> The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is
> medieval.
> Peter Singer (above), Independent on Sunday 12/11/1999
>
> There can hardly be an educated football fan in the country who does
> not know that A J Ayer seldom missed a match at White Hart Lane, home of
> Tottenham Hotspur. [...] The argument goes that if a philosopher likes
> football, then liking football makes you a philosopher: a strange use to
> which the name of a professor of logic should be put.
> Theodore Dalrymple, the New Statesman 22/11/1999
>
> For a secularist such as myself, it is a matter for regret that
> people should live by false or absurd beliefs, and a matter of scandal
> that they should indoctrinate their children, yet incapable of thinking
> for themselves. The thought that public money - my taxes included -
> should go to support any group of people, Christian or otherwise, in
> doing so, adds to the scandal.
> Anthony Grayling, the Guardian 11/12/1999
>
> The apparent threat to the traditional notion of free will has
> nothing to do with genetic, neurobiological, or evolutionary explantions
> of behaviour. It is raised by any explanation of behaviour.
> Steven Pinker, the Guardian 6/11/1999
>
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