This is a fascinating interview on a variety of levels, but Montas critique of the professoriate was particularly striking: "My criticism is that much of the intellectual establishment has thrown out the baby with the bathwater: that the adoption of those insights has been, for the most part, shallow, superficial, and performative. That there has been a kind of posturing in the name of human rights and social justice progressivism that has taken those insights and made them into dogma." I am left wondering what Montas' explanation is for this lamentable state of affairs is other than the fact that people are susceptible provincialism.
Feb 3, 2022Liked by Richard Hurowitz, The Octavian Report
Full of thought-provoking nuggets: "The premise of a liberal education is the human condition of freedom, in which every individual experiences him or herself as a self-determining agent, possesses a notion of the good, and organizes their lives in pursuit of that notion." Plus, any "antidote to the discursive disintegration that we are seeing in society" is a welcome antidote.
This is a fascinating interview on a variety of levels, but Montas critique of the professoriate was particularly striking: "My criticism is that much of the intellectual establishment has thrown out the baby with the bathwater: that the adoption of those insights has been, for the most part, shallow, superficial, and performative. That there has been a kind of posturing in the name of human rights and social justice progressivism that has taken those insights and made them into dogma." I am left wondering what Montas' explanation is for this lamentable state of affairs is other than the fact that people are susceptible provincialism.
Full of thought-provoking nuggets: "The premise of a liberal education is the human condition of freedom, in which every individual experiences him or herself as a self-determining agent, possesses a notion of the good, and organizes their lives in pursuit of that notion." Plus, any "antidote to the discursive disintegration that we are seeing in society" is a welcome antidote.