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Post by hlb2 on Feb 11, 2004 13:14:20 GMT -5
I wonder? What is conservatism? What is liberalism? Which by its nature, by what it's approach to a question or intellectual pursuit, is more consistent with the pursuits of academe?  |
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Post by showcase on Feb 14, 2004 1:18:27 GMT -5
More on Dook (or, moron Dook)... www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-446909.htmlThere are some spectacularly stupid comments made by a couple of "department chairs" recounted in the article; it's a must read... danged smileys... |
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Post by thebin on Feb 14, 2004 9:18:08 GMT -5
you mean like this: "Robert Munger, chairman of the political science department, said he was impressed by Duke's intellectual diversity, which he called "relatively healthy" compared to other universities.
Still, Munger recalled a recent meeting in which he heard a fellow department chairman say it was Duke's job to confront conservative students with their hypocrisies and that they didn't need to say much to liberal students because they already understood the world."
Still I think my favorite is the chair of the philosphy department not quite being able to grasp that John Stuart Mill's idea of liberalism is a chief tenet of a large idealogical wing of the Republican party- that 18th century European defintions of "liberalism" are almost juxtaposed to what we mean in modern America when we talk about liberals.
There are some pretty bald-faced prejudices there- and that is what they feel comfortable saying on record. THese people are in charge of hiring professors. I would be very surprised if you hire a prof in the humanities without having a feeling for his/her political philospohy- unless the of course keep it well hidden in fear.
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