Comments on: Lies I Tell My Students http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/ "Austro" as in Rothbard and Wittgenstein, "Athenian" as in Aristotle and smashing-the-plutocracy. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave2 http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/comment-page-1/#comment-334962 Dave2 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:17:32 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/#comment-334962 Roderick, What's wrong with the God / torture example? You suggest that it has a conceptually impossible antecedent, but that seems untrue. Granting that the moral perfection of God is a matter of conceptual necessity, I nevertheless doubt that the wrongness of torture is a matter of conceptual necessity. To be sure, it may well be a matter of metaphysical necessity. But those who deny that torture is wrong (or assert that torture would be right if God commanded it!) are not conceptually confused. We just disagree is all. Roderick,

What’s wrong with the God / torture example? You suggest that it has a conceptually impossible antecedent, but that seems untrue. Granting that the moral perfection of God is a matter of conceptual necessity, I nevertheless doubt that the wrongness of torture is a matter of conceptual necessity. To be sure, it may well be a matter of metaphysical necessity. But those who deny that torture is wrong (or assert that torture would be right if God commanded it!) are not conceptually confused. We just disagree is all.

]]> By: Nathan Byrd http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/comment-page-1/#comment-334348 Nathan Byrd Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:57:31 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/#comment-334348 I don't think it's much different than teaching Newtonian mechanics in the first quarter of physics, and then telling them that's not quite right when you get to relativity. I don’t think it’s much different than teaching Newtonian mechanics in the first quarter of physics, and then telling them that’s not quite right when you get to relativity.

]]> By: Black Bloke http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/comment-page-1/#comment-333899 Black Bloke Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:27:26 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/#comment-333899 Roderick reprises his own version of "Lies My Teacher Told Me". I thank you for your confession my child and recommend you do two "Our Fathers" and one "Hail Mary". Light a candle before you leave the confession hall. Seriously, I think everyone who teaches things of any depth has these rules for the easing of their students initiation. Having to do some unexpected school work this week reminded me of that. Roderick reprises his own version of “Lies My Teacher Told Me”.

I thank you for your confession my child and recommend you do two “Our Fathers” and one “Hail Mary”. Light a candle before you leave the confession hall.

Seriously, I think everyone who teaches things of any depth has these rules for the easing of their students initiation. Having to do some unexpected school work this week reminded me of that.

]]> By: Richard Hammer http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/comment-page-1/#comment-333750 Richard Hammer Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:02:11 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/#comment-333750 I wish I could be one of your students, starting at the basic level of the non-majors, so I could learn habits such as yours, of noticing the parts of an argument – or the missing parts. I wish I could be one of your students, starting at the basic level of the non-majors, so I could learn habits such as yours, of noticing the parts of an argument – or the missing parts.

]]> By: jjensenii http://aaeblog.com/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/comment-page-1/#comment-333675 jjensenii Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:41:50 +0000 http://praxeology.net/blog/2008/12/05/lies-i-tell-my-students/#comment-333675 Would you include Derrida in your list of non-argumentative philosophers? Would you include Derrida in your list of non-argumentative philosophers?

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