Re: different thread

From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 07:58:32 EDT

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    In a message dated 8/13/03 9:25:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
    jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com writes:

    > Need we speak of Ms.
    > Mead?
    >
    >

    According to Kevin MacDonald in The Culture of Critique, Mead was a tool of
    Franz Boas who wanted humanity presented as intrinsically good in a state of
    nature. Boasian historical particularism postulated that you couldn't say
    anything about anyone until you knew everything about everyone, effectively
    preventing anyone from saying anything definitive about human culture also preventing
    the acceptance of general laws that might govern human culture. There were no
    general laws such as selection governing human behavior. Of course, he seems
    to have deliberately led everyone and encouraged Mead's work in Samoa which
    later turned out to be as faulty as Boasian anthropology.
    rich



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