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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (11615)	4/17/2001 1:16:39 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I think that science does constitute objective truth, or rather an approximation to it, and therefore should be taught. I think that history is reasonable objective, and supplemented by literature and the social science says a great deal about human beings and their communities. I have no idea what you are ranting about in the first paragraph. In the second paragraph, supposing that common morality were a "lesson learned through experience", that would, to me, make it an objective truth. You may have noticed that I am not very particular about how one arrives at a conception of morality, and that I focus on what is mainly consensual. I think that it is the primary business of the school to teach the ordinary syllabus: math, science, social studies, English, with art, music, and other subjects for enrichment. In the course of doing that, inevitably one conveys a moral viewpoint, but I should say that is subordinate to teaching the multiplication tables or the several continents. Now, what exactly are you taking me to task for?