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Philosophy professor Peter Kreeft says the exact opposite

Posted on: September 13, 2016 at 14:11:57 CT
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has been what he has observed in his students:

The Cybernetics of Liberalism
by PETER KREEFT

I have come up with a cybernetic hypothesis about liberalism: Its a brain disorder, a confusion between right and left hemispheres.

http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/controversy/politics-and-the-church/the-cybernetics-of-liberalism.html

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You might be a liberal if ...

Ever since I began teaching philosophy to college students in 1962, I have been puzzled by the fact that some of them actually find Heidegger easier to understand than Aquinas, Kant than Aristotle, Dewey than James, Hegel than Plato. These students do fairly well when tested on the muddy, fuzzy ideological thinkers, but they get a mental block when they try to understand the clear, commonsensical ones. Clearly they cannot fathom clarity, and certainly not certainty. They simply cannot believe that a philosopher can be clear and certain about anything important. ...
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What is the proper word for the disappointment you feel - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:24:51
     It's a hallmark of True Conservatives, like these - FootballRefugee MU - 9/13 15:41:27
     4TigersinMichiganiny is the word you seekl(nm) - JG A - 9/13 14:55:47
     RE: What is the proper word for the disappointment you feel - tigerinhogtown STL - 9/13 13:59:48
          LOL Oh damn, Thats perfect - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 14:04:42
     Disenchanted - Disillusioned - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 13:57:40
     ill go with Befuddlement(nm) - SEC_BIG_GAMEHUNTER MU - 9/13 13:51:20
     Still got the warm and fuzzier for your boy Walker? - "Wild Bill" Donovan MU - 9/13 13:46:27
          You bet - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:47:17
               RE: You bet - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 14:10:03
               Great-Keep'ed there. - "Wild Bill" Donovan MU - 9/13 13:48:30
     I just call them an ignorant demlib and move on.(nm) - GA Tiger MU - 9/13 13:44:57
     RE: What is the proper word for the disappointment you feel - raskolnikov MU - 9/13 13:44:39
          energy isn't metaphysical you dope (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 9/13 14:28:54
          Had you spent the same amount of time responding to his - JeffB MU - 9/13 14:14:59
          You sure posted plenty of other places for being at work - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:46:59
               No one said it was easy - raskolnikov MU - 9/13 13:57:58
                    The Sufi has figured out we are composed of vibrating atoms - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 13:59:35
                         Intelligent people take the complicated and make it simple - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 14:00:49
                              Particle Wave, Wave Particle. We are both - raskolnikov MU - 9/13 14:49:19
               You rang ? - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 13:52:02
                    Indeed - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:59:49
                         Country boy common sense - Uncle Fester USMC - 9/13 14:07:34
     Religious zealot?(nm) - meatiger MU - 9/13 13:29:16
          Nah - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:32:12
               guess you must hate Conservatives then(nm) - meatiger MU - 9/13 13:38:21
                    Philosophy professor Peter Kreeft says the exact opposite - JeffB MU - 9/13 14:11:57
                    Hmmm, if you actually look at it - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:45:34
     You're the neediest dude on this board. (nm) - 90Tiger MU - 9/13 13:28:46
          says the child who literally brings nothing to this board. - mizzou alum 93 MU - 9/13 15:31:52
          lol as you insert yourself into his thread - Ragnar Danneskjold MU - 9/13 13:53:16
               I didn't make this about me, my comment was about him - - 90Tiger MU - 9/13 14:30:20
               Kind funny, huh? - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 14:01:16
          Thank you for your contribution to the dialog - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:31:07
     Like the swallows to Capistrano (nm) - pickle MU - 9/13 13:27:26
          I was wrong about you - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 9/13 13:33:05
          salmon(nm) - hefeweizen MU - 9/13 13:27:55




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