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Pardon my ignorance, but how is Mortimer Adler?

>A quote from Mortimer Adler indicates the problem:
>"The philosophical anarchist is one who mistakenly believes that human
>beings can live together peacefully and harmoniously without
>government." from "Adler's Philosophical Dictionary ISBN 0-684-82271-7

I just love this stuff, really do.  It is so amazing when people forget
that, for millions of years, humans existed WITHOUT goverment.

Amazing, all in itself.

And I won't even talk about those who mistakenly believes that human
beings can live together peacefully and harmoniously WITH government.

That's another bag of potatoes.

>I don't care what you think about Adler.  I agree with his definition.
>Many people do.  I will always be trying to instantiate government
>where government belongs, and you will always be trying to knock it
>down.  We won't live together peacefully and harmoniously; I'll say
>it's because we need government here or there, and you'll say it is
>because we don't.  I won't give in and neither will you.  Hence
>Adler's definition holds.

Hey, Noam is one of those guys who doesn't know if government should be
allowed to exist in society, but then again, he does believe that the
people(who would be governed) should decide that, not him or anyone else.

Milutin

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