tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post1371563777117496356..comments2024-02-12T05:57:37.295-05:00Comments on Dude, where's the Dharma?: Will "economics" go the way of "religion"?Dudehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06849866517236034909noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post-33115821518580651352008-04-18T10:47:00.000-04:002008-04-18T10:47:00.000-04:00It has been long enough since I typed this essay t...It has been long enough since I typed this essay that I had, after receiving your comment via email, to check and make sure it contained the obligatory (crudely stated in exaggerated form for purpose of discussion)...and it does.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, though, the disclaimer is not required in an essay, which, means, from the French (essai) to try, experiment. <BR/><BR/>To quote Montaigne: <I>I put Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06849866517236034909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14834651.post-31832990902615488112008-04-18T02:52:00.000-04:002008-04-18T02:52:00.000-04:00Hey hey,As a philosopher, I would take issue with ...Hey hey,<BR/><BR/>As a philosopher, I would take issue with the simplification that Aristotle is a lover of the natural (characterized as the brutish, or status quo), and that Plato is a lover of the better nature of humans/human possibility. <BR/><BR/>As a scholar of Hobbes, who is typically characterized as the anti-Arisotle and a worshipper of the baser human instincts (a characterization Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01336314914154049579noreply@blogger.com