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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
>>
>> http://www.philosophers.co.uk/current/media10.htm
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