There are a number of ways that I think rationality relates (mostly in a broad sense) to political theory. This is a common thread among philosophers, including some fairly contemporary and quite good ones.
I’ve started trying to participate in this forum partly because I wanted to bring them up here. I’ve gotten the impression from a friend who is involved in the community that these ideas are relatively unknown here but would be pertinent or at least interesting.
Is posting in this way off limits by some community norm? Or is discussion of political theory (as it relates to reason and rationality) ok as long as it is not deliberately inflammatory? (The latter seems to be the spirit of this post)
I’m not sure what the right way to ask for policy clarification is, so I’ll try this.
In a recent discussion in comments, I was alerted to the ‘standing agreement on LW not to discuss politics’. It was in a context I found perplexing (the question as to whether political theory is something worth keeping in philosophy departments) http://lesswrong.com/lw/frp/train_philosophers_with_pearl_and_kahneman_not/842a
There are a number of ways that I think rationality relates (mostly in a broad sense) to political theory. This is a common thread among philosophers, including some fairly contemporary and quite good ones.
I’ve started trying to participate in this forum partly because I wanted to bring them up here. I’ve gotten the impression from a friend who is involved in the community that these ideas are relatively unknown here but would be pertinent or at least interesting.
Is posting in this way off limits by some community norm? Or is discussion of political theory (as it relates to reason and rationality) ok as long as it is not deliberately inflammatory? (The latter seems to be the spirit of this post)
Thanks for any clarification.