Milutin writes:
> Pardon my ignorance, but how is Mortimer Adler?

I haven't heard how he is doing.  I think he is still alive.  He is in
his nineties.

> >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.

You mean before the advent of clans and farming, way back before
civilization.  Why do you say they forget that?  Why do you thinnk it
is important to remember that people who were uncivilized lived like
wild animals?

> 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.

Well why don't you talk about them?

> >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.

No, I think you are wrong.  He recognizes a need for government.  He
says its existence should be justified.

martin

Martin Smith                    Email: [log in to unmask]
P.O. Box 1034 Bekkajordet       Tel. : +47 330 35700
N-3194 HORTEN, Norway           Fax. : +47 330 35701