What we know in relation to how the presidential candidates and our potential representatives and senators personify our own knowledge:
1. Our ordinary knowledge
How do we accept for purposes of public discourse and action, the basic theory from the social sciences that "social reality is constructed"?
--i.e. we invented and can reinvent our culture, like our ideas about markets
--i.e. we learned and can relearn our estimates of each other
--i.e. we organized and can reorganize the way we get things done together
2. Our extraordinary knowledge
How do we accept for purposes of public discourse and action our various weaves of meaningi, irrespective of how we view them as being derived?
--i.e. how do we trace our values and their residence in our evocative objects
--i.e. how do we accept our handling of differences a la John Rawls and others
--i.e. how do we accept the limits on consensus in a 232 year old system
3. Our evidence-based knowledge
How do we respect knowledge from evidence-based experts?
--e.g. regarding global warming, health, poverty<>wealth, education, peace
--in spite of our own vested interests
--in spite of our own loyalties, presuppositions and assumptions
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Sunday, October 19, 2008
2008 election checklist
1. Which candidates are most likely to take us into their
confidence for inventing a new future together and learning
to live in that future, possibly for 100,000s of years?
[note: still learning how to make links--want one here to
BA--MA2009]
2. Which candidates will best help us generate overlapping
consensus where possible and then help us cope with irreconcilable differences?
3. Which candidates will best demonstrate a turn of mind
toward evidence-based diagnoses and proposed treatments for
our major problems?
4. Which candidates will best show a sense of timing and give
clearer reasons for their proposals as they reflect what we know about ourselves, our values and our evidence?
5. Which candidates will best candidly deconstruct their
proposals and their rationales and then reconstruct them with
us, as envisaged by the checks and balances of three branches?
6. Which candidates will take a mix of positons most alligned
with our allies' and our own considered positions, beginning with the liberal-conservative movements and their parties?
confidence for inventing a new future together and learning
to live in that future, possibly for 100,000s of years?
[note: still learning how to make links--want one here to
BA--MA2009]
2. Which candidates will best help us generate overlapping
consensus where possible and then help us cope with irreconcilable differences?
3. Which candidates will best demonstrate a turn of mind
toward evidence-based diagnoses and proposed treatments for
our major problems?
4. Which candidates will best show a sense of timing and give
clearer reasons for their proposals as they reflect what we know about ourselves, our values and our evidence?
5. Which candidates will best candidly deconstruct their
proposals and their rationales and then reconstruct them with
us, as envisaged by the checks and balances of three branches?
6. Which candidates will take a mix of positons most alligned
with our allies' and our own considered positions, beginning with the liberal-conservative movements and their parties?
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